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...bringing together the entire Harvard community, Kwanzaa will serve to promote the ideal of unity, an ideal of inherent social and political value," BSA President Kristen M. Clarke '97 said yesterday...

Author: By Anne L. Brody, | Title: BSA to Hold Its First Kwanzaa Celebration | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

...recent years no group has organized a Kwanzaa ceremony aimed at undergraduates. A group of graduate students arranged a celebration to which undergraduates were invited, but few chose to attend, according to former BSA president Alvin L. Bragg '95. Tufts University students organized an observance as well. This year will mark the first time a Harvard undergraduate organization has sponsored Kwanzaa, Bragg said...

Author: By Anne L. Brody, | Title: BSA to Hold Its First Kwanzaa Celebration | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

According to Bragg, few Harvard students celebrate Kwanzaa. In fact, Clarke said she did not know of anyone who celebrated it on campus last year. However, BSA is expecting a turnout of at least 60 people, said BSA Vice President Alison L. Moore...

Author: By Anne L. Brody, | Title: BSA to Hold Its First Kwanzaa Celebration | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

...Kwanzaa has been spreading as a tradition since the mid-1970s, when it was conceived by Maulana Karen ga, a professor at University of California at Long Beach. It is still mostly celebrated "by the intelligentsia [since] that is how information disseminates," said BSA Treasurer Joshua D. Bloodworth '97. The numbers observing are still growing very rapidly, Bloodworth added...

Author: By Anne L. Brody, | Title: BSA to Hold Its First Kwanzaa Celebration | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

...will include the traditional Kwanzaa feast and gathering for which Brothers, a subdivision of Kuumba, will be singing. Members of Harvard African Students Association may perform traditional African dances as well...

Author: By Anne L. Brody, | Title: BSA to Hold Its First Kwanzaa Celebration | 12/2/1994 | See Source »

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