Carol Richardson, cultural affairs manager for the city of Gainesville’s Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs department, ...

The Dr. Denise Boston of the Howard County Office of Human Rights and Equity lights the seventh candle which represents the principal of Umani, or faith, during the 2024 Howard County Kwanzaa ...

Celebrants gathered at the historic Old Central Cultural Center on Saturday in Galveston for the Nia Cultural Center's annual ...

"Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday, it's not a political holiday, it's a cultural celebration," said Brother Washington Muhammad, a representative of the Kwanzaa House in Toledo. The holiday focuses ...

STAE COLLEGE, Pa. (WTAJ) — A noncitizen of the United States was arrested in State College after being accused of shoplifting ...

Each night, one of those candles is lit. The candles are the same colors as the Kwanzaa flag: Black representing the people, ...

About 40 people gathered inside City Hall in the morning to celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa, called umoja or unity, with music, dancing and the lighting of the first of seven candles signifying ...

Hundreds of people made a short pilgrimage Thursday from Detroit's Cadillac Square to Campus Martius to see the first candle of the park's towering Kwanzaa kinara illuminate the dark evening sky.

Kwanzaa always begins on Dec. 26 and is kicked off with a candle lighting ceremony. “Kwanzaa is an extremely important holiday. It’s not a religious holiday but it’s a purely cultural ...

Daniel Houston, a Tooele man, says he only started celebrating Kwanzaa a few years ago. “I actually celebrated, my first year, without any of the candles,” Houston said. Born out of the Black Freedom ...

Kwanzaa has become a nationally recognized celebration of African culture and community in the United States since its ...