For seven days every year, up to 2 million Americans celebrate Kwanzaa, an African American and Pan African holiday honoring family, community, and culture. Observed from December 26 to January 1, the non-religious holiday is rich in history, meaning, and customs.
Consider this your guide to learning everything about Kwanzaa and how you can celebrate it as a family. What is Kwanzaa?
matunda ya kwanza meaning first fruits.
The seven-day celebration is based on African harvest festivals, which include lots of dancing and music.
Harvest celebrations that influenced Kwanzaa include the Yam Festival, which celebrates the yam harvest, and
Homowo, meaning hooting at hunger. Then there’s a ceremony called first fruits that goes on for days to bless new crops and those who are going to eat the food.
That in the case of puerto rico clearly is being borne out. i wanted to say, look, this morning i read letter from a birmingham jail. i think anyone watching this show right now should take ten minutes from their day and go and just honor dr. king by reading that. while i was reading it, i was reminded, martin luther king day is my holiday. it s not the african-american holiday. that s the way donald trump is treating it. it s a holiday for those people. it s my holiday. it s an american holiday and it s important and this goes to something the reverend said. it has national security implications because the united states is the country of martin luther king, not edi amin, not adolf hitler, not other racial or ethnic dividers or bigots. what makes what gives the united states its attractive power, what gives the united states moral authority when we go and fight in niger or somalia or elsewhere is that we are the nation of dr. king.