Activists, community members, volunteers and civil rights groups across New England are coming together Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, part of a nationwide movement to solve social problems through community service.
Kwanzaa was created out of the philosophy of Kawaida, which is a cultural nationalist philosophy that argues that the key challenge in Black peoples’ lives is the challenge of culture and that what Africans must do is to discover and bring forth the best of their culture, both ancient and current, and use it as a foundation to bring into being models of human excellence and possibilities to enrich and expand our lives.