Kwanzaa: A Celebration to Enrich the Soul By Holly Allender In the depths of the Civil Rights Movement during the mid-1960s, an answer to cultural identity crisis came to a climax. Amongst the riots, the deaths of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and all the other injustices, a new tradition touplift and celebrate African-Americans was created – Kwanzaa. From those hard, horrible times, this holiday was created to celebrate and honor African-American and Pan-African … [Read more...]