Research Kwanzaa’s roots

Posted: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:45 pm | Updated: 9:13 pm, Fri Dec 14, 2012.

Are you celebrating Kwanzaa this year? Do you know the origin of this rootless, largely ignored outside the US psuedo-holiday?

It was created in 1966 by a self-described Marxist revolutionary by the name of Ron Karenga.

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Posted in Letters to the editor, Opinion, Editor on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:45 pm. Updated: 9:13 pm.