Word: kwanzaa
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...Sunday, the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (BSA) will sponsor its first celebration of Kwanzaa, the African-American celebration of ethnic unity which coincides with the harvest in many African countries...
Some stores are also celebrating Hanukkah. An assortment of Yiddish music was on display at HMV. HMV also plans displays to celebrate Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday observed after Christmas. --Material from the Associated Press was used in this report...
...judge's order to remove a Kente cloth shawl while appearing in court because it might influence black members of the jury. Some of us, including one black member of Congress, have cast aside our "slave names" and adopted African ones. Many of us celebrate pseudo- African holidays like Kwanzaa, in addition to Christmas. Across the land, there is a push for "Afrocentric" education. Increasingly, we call ourselves African Americans, or even, like rap singer Sister Souljah, simply "Africans," dropping any connection to America from our definition of our tribe...
...official at the African American Cultural Center in Los Angeles. "But there is still a community -- and not a small one -- that observes the serious intent of the holiday." This year the center is collecting food and clothing for the homeless, another way to spread the true joys of Kwanzaa...
LIVING Habari gani to you, as Kwanzaa approaches...