Is an black holiday celebration to honor life values.
Practiced worldwide. I. E. Caribbean, North America.

The cultural values r in swahili.
The principles r known as the Nguzo Saba...or seven principles.
For those Nigerian with a negative perception of African Americans.
We do have culture and we live our lives by moral principles....

The holiday is celebrated in street festivals, and in the homes of families...
Kwanzaa is a Swahili word that means Harvest of Fruits.

fightforchange1:
Is an black holiday celebration to honor life values.
Practiced worldwide. I. E. Caribbean, North America.

The cultural values r in swahili.
The principles r known as the Nguzo Saba...or seven principles.
For those Nigerian with a negative perception of African Americans.
We do have culture and we live our lives by moral principles....

The holiday is celebrated in street festivals, and in the homes of families...
Kwanzaa is a Swahili word that means Harvest of Fruits.

Thanks for the info. I've always wondered what it was about.

Kwanzaa is an African and Pan-African holiday which celebrates family, community and culture. Celebrated from 26 December thru 1 January, its origins are in the first harvest celebrations of Africa from which it takes its name. The name Kwanzaa is derived from the phrase "matunda ya kwanza" which means "first fruits" in Swahili, a Pan-African language which is the most widely spoken African language.
The first-fruits celebrations are recorded in African history as far back as ancient Egypt and Nubia and appear in ancient and modern times in other classical African civilizations such as Ashantiland and Yorubaland. These celebrations are also found in ancient and modern times among societies as large as empires (the Zulu or kingdoms (Swaziland) or smaller societies and groups like the Matabele, Thonga and Lovedu, all of southeastern Africa. Kwanzaa builds on the five fundamental activities of Continental African "first fruit" celebrations: ingathering; reverence; commemoration; recommitment; and celebration. Kwanzaa, then, is:
a time of ingathering of the people to reaffirm the bonds between them;
a time of special reverence for the creator and creation in thanks and respect for the blessings, bountifulness and beauty of creation;
a time for commemoration of the past in pursuit of its lessons and in honor of its models of human excellence, our ancestors;
a time of recommitment to our highest cultural ideals in our ongoing effort to always bring forth the best of African cultural thought and practice; and
a time for celebration of the Good, the good of life and of existence itself, the good of family, community and culture, the good of the awesome and the ordinary, in a word the good of the divine, natural and social.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLGZILVAz8o

The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa

This Kwanzaa millions of Africans all over the world come again together to celebrate family, community and culture and to recommit them to creating and practicing good in the world, using the Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles, as the fundamental framework and foundation to achieve this. Thus, as our ancestors and elders before us, we come again together to reinforce the bonds between us as persons and peoples, and to give thanks for the harvest of good we have gathered from the fertile fields of our lands, the fruitful fields of our lives, and the bruising and blood-stained battlefields of our struggles. We come together again also to commemorate the past, to raise and praise the sacred names and sustaining practices of the ancestors and to recommit ourselves to the dignity-affirming and life-enhancing views and values they have left to ground and guide us. Consciously following in the cultural footsteps of our ancestors and elders, we come together also to celebrate the good in and of the world, the good of family, community and culture, the good of loving-kindness and care, the good of respect for ourselves and others, the good of life and love, of sharing and together, working to build and sustain the world we all want and deserve to live in.