Kwanzaa begins Monday night. The holiday was created in 1966.
The KwanZaa Gwaride began around 11 a.m. at Adams and Crenshaw boulevards, then headed south on Crenshaw Boulevard for two miles to Leimert Park, where a vendor and entertainment festival was held. The festival included libations honoring the ancestors, jazz, R&B, reggae and spoken word performances and African drumming.
The theme of this year's event is "Kila Kitu KwanZaa," featuring the history, origins, spirituality, and impact of Kwanzaa on the African diaspora in communities nationwide.Christmas tree pickup, recycling tips for after the holidaysThe parade's oba was Torre Brannon Reece, the founder and director of the mentoring and school-based art program FA-MLI Inc.
The 2022 Kwanzaa theme is "Kwanzaa, Culture and the Practice of Freedom: A Message and Model For Our Times." "I speak here of freedom in its inclusive sense, not only freedom from domination, deprivation and degradation so rampant and ruinous in the world, but also of freedom to be ourselves, to express and develop ourselves, to grow and flourish and come into the fullness of ourselves.", created Kwanzaa in 1966 in what he called "an audacious act of self-determination."
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