I haven’t heard the word Kwanzaa this year and I’m not surprised. Kwanzaa is a dying non-religious holiday that was created right after the Watts riots in 1966 and was meant to bring African-Americans together to form a sense of unity. Many African-Americans don’t celebrate the holiday (1.7% of African-Americans celebrated Kwanzaa in 2004) leaving the tough question, is Kwanzaa still relevant?
Art Whino thinks so. Artist TMNK came down for the Kwanzaa Event at the Gaylord. Read more here!
tight film. hope you get to see it.
by she
sorry, it’s theblackcandle.com. http://www.theblackcandle.com/site.html.
by she
Joi!!!!! You’re famous-er. This post was printed in the Express!
by The Barb
I saw! That has been my goal alllllllll year long. Dreams do come true! I’m hoping 2009 can be better than ’08 cuz my ’08 was pretty darn sweet! 
by DC Fab
I’m thinking my side hustle should be charging dues for your fan club.
by The Barb
Yes, Kwanzaa is still relevant to the black community. I know many people inside and outside of the DC area still celebrating the holiday!
by phenomena
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I had a discussion about this on Christmas…as long as we continue to not deal with the socio-economic class divide within the Black community, Kwanzaa will continue to become more and more irrelevant for the majority of us. Plus, Kwanzaa isn’t crammed down your throat like Christmas so to even learn about Kwanzaa (unless you come up in an environment that will expose you to the celebration) you’ll probably have to read about it which is something else a lot of Blacks don’t like to deal with.
by Sonya