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Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers this afternoon. High 41F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50%..
Cloudy skies. Low 34F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
Updated: December 23, 2024 @ 9:43 am
Items created by local artisans including jewelry, African clothing, art, specialty soaps and candles will be available during the Kwanzaa celebration to be held Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, 2025, at Malcolm X College.
Items created by local artisans including jewelry, African clothing, art, specialty soaps and candles will be available during the Kwanzaa celebration to be held Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, 2025, at Malcolm X College.
Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Jackson St., has a strong history of celebrating Kwanzaa annually for more than 18 years.
The Kwanzaa Celebration and Marketplace will be open on Tuesday, Dec. 26, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and continues through Jan. 1, 2025, with the same hours.
Every day at noon, the program starts with a drum call, libation, recounting Kwanzaa history, lighting of the candles and sharing the principal of the day, culminating with a performance.
The event celebrating Kwanzaa is free and open to the public, and all will enjoy live performances and shopping, courtesy of local artisans. Items for sale include handmade and exquisite jewelry, African clothing, African inspired art, African drums, leather goods, pottery, traditional music instruments, specialty soaps and candles, and more.
Performances include the Najwa Dance Corps, Theophilus Reed and Band, Khalidah’s North African Middle Eastern Dance, Chi-Village Day, Moya Cultural Arts Drum and Dance Group, Toca Live–Tony Carpenter, and Ayodele Drum and Dance.
Kwanza is an annual celebration of African-American culture that is held from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. It was created by Maulana Karenga and is rooted in the African harvest festival traditions from various countries. Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966 and celebrates the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba. These seven principles comprise Kawaida, a Swahili word meaning “common philosophy.”
Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the principles, as follows:
•Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
•Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
•Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together.
•Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
•Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
•Kuumba (Creativity): To always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
•Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
For more information, visit the website at ccc.edu.
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