Learn all about the community-centered holiday with these fun, educational Kwanzaa books for young readers Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

The Smithsonian museum is hosting a week’s worth of celebrations for the holiday, which ends Jan. 1. Inside a room gradually ...

At the Bronzeville Children’s Museum, founder Peggy Montes spends the few days before Christmas preparing her museum for its yearly Kwanzaa celebration. Mariah Rush/Sun-Times Share The seven ...

Food, music, crafts and more were featured at the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center celebration on the third day of Kwanzaa.

There’s something uniquely American in both its wanton borrowing from existing tradition and its naked admission of artificiality. By Ismail Muhammad This article was originally published on Dec ...

Umoja. Kujichagulia. Ujima. Ujamaa. Nia. Kuumba. Imani. Those Swahili words are familiar or will become familiar to people who will take part in the annual celebration of African American culture ...

The way the December holidays fall this year could make a compelling story arc for the hit Netflix romantic comedy series "Nobody Wants This," in which a rabbi falls in love with a non-Jewish ...

Kwanzaa Crafts and Stories: Presented by Long Beach Public Library. Bach Neighborhood Library, 4055 N. Bellflower Blvd.. 2:30-3:30 p.m. 562-570-1038, longbeach.gov. Holiday Party: Hosted by Watch Me!

Chamber Business Social, 5:30-7 p.m., Crowne Plaza Town Center, 4453 Bonney Road, Virginia Beach. The Hampton Roads Chamber is hosting a networking event with hors d’oeuvres and cash bar. Register at ...

Get out there and enjoy the holiday happenings at these events throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties. Coconut Creek Chabad of Coconut Creek’s Chanukah Celebration will have a menorah ...

Chabad of Coconut Creek’s Chanukah Celebration will have a menorah lighting, music, jelly donuts and kids’ crafts at 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 26, at Promenade at Coconut Creek, 4467 Lyons Road.