City leaders joined the Kwanzaa Cooperative to light up Boathouse Row and commemorate the holiday with music and tradition. Dozens gathered on the first day of the weeklong festival to light the ...

Boathouse Row was lit up for Kwanzaa on Thursday night. The city of Philadelphia teamed up with the Kwanzaa Cooperative for the festive celebration at Eagle Pavilion at the Fairmount Water Works. "I ...

"Celebrating Kwanzaa in Difficult and Demanding Times: Lifting up the Light that Last" was this year's theme. Gov. Laura Kelly hosted St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church and community ...

Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs and the Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement gathered at Boathouse Row to mark the return of the Kwanzaa lighting after the lights on the Boathouse went dark in ...

Each day, families will come together to light one of the candles in the kinara, a candleholder for the seven Kwanzaa candles. Families will discuss the principle for the day when they light the ...

(April Gamiz/The Morning Call) Tonacene Nickens of Bethlehem lights a candle Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024 during The Esther M Lee African American Heritage Center’s Kwanzaa celebration at PBS39 in ...

Kwanzaa unfolds across seven nights ... Every night, my younger brother, my parents and I would gather before the kinara to light a candle while reciting the holiday’s principles.

WHEN YOU HAVE MORE LIGHT, WHEN YOU HAVE MORE PEOPLE DOING GOOD, IT HAS HAS A TREMENDOUS GROWTH AND A TREMENDOUS EFFECT. KWANZAA IS CELEBRATED THROUGH JANUARY 1ST, AND THIS YEAR HANUKKAH IS ...

The 2024 theme is '"Celebrating Kwanzaa in Difficult and Demanding Times: Lifting Up the Light that Lasts." "Kwanzaa is a time for families and communities to come together to remember the past ...