Happy New Year! We hope you had a joyful holiday season. As celebrating continues, Kwanzaa, a very young holiday celebration, culminates on Jan 1. Kwanzaa (/ˈkwɑːn.zə/) is an annual celebration of African-American culture from Dec 26 to Jan 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. The celebration also offers seven principles that can be useful throughout the year.
On each day of Kwanzaa, a lighted candle represents a principle. These principles are:
- Unity: To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
- Self-Determination: To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
- Collective Work and Responsibility: To build and maintain our community together, make our community’s problems our problems, and solve them together.
- Cooperative Economics: To build and maintain stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
- Purpose: To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
- Creativity: To always do as much as we can to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
- Faith: To believe with all our hearts in our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
According to Wikipedia, Kwanzaa was created by activist Maulana Karenga and is based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West and Southeast Africa. Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966. Estimates of how many Americans celebrate Kwanzaa have varied in recent years, from as few as half a million to as many as 12 million. Learn more about Kwanzaa at https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-kwanzaa.
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