After President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey -- and despite assertions that the action represents an exoneration -- members of the government he founded continue their demands for ...

The first Kwanzaa was celebrated on Dec. 26, 1966, in Los Angeles under the direction of Maulana Karenga, the chairman of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University in Long ...

This is a necessary revisiting of a critical issue, reclaiming King in the turbulent and taxing context of our time. In the ...

Then Mount Pleasant’s pastor, Reverend Nyika Taylor, chose several children to bring the Kwanzaa symbols to the front. The ...

The Lakewood Black Caucus Kwanzaa celebration was held on Saturday, December 28th, which was the third day of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is a secular celebration of heritage based on seven principles founded by ...

The Kwanzaa Collective in the Valley stopped in Chicopee on Dec. 27 to educate the public and celebrate the second day of Kwanzaa.

It was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor of African studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, after African-American unrest in the city caused by severe racial ...

“The idea is for African and African descended people to come together around family, community and culture so we can be in spaces where, in Dr. Karenga’s words, we feel fully African and ...

Paschell detailed the history of Kwanzaa, founded by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966. She described the creation of the nonreligious cultural holiday as an effort to give African Americans a vehicle ...

Dr Range sparked concern by posting this image on social media Instagram @DrRanjSingh Writing his statement against a black back drop, he wrote: “Apologies should have explained... I slipped and ...

Kwanzaa was first created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in the 1960s, shortly after the Civil Rights Movement. The event from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 was meant to bring solidarity to communities in a time of ...