Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Sunday Globe Special: Kwanzaa Was Created in California

Kwanzaa celebrations mark cultural values

Sunday marks the fifth day of Kwanzaa, a weeklong African-American holiday that is still not widely understood more than four decades after it was created by a California professor.

“There are a lot of myths out there about Kwanzaa,” said Sadiki Kambon of Roxbury, a longtime activist and Kwanzaa organizer and director of the Black Community Information Center, a volunteer-run organization based in Dorchester.

I get a newspaper full of them every day.