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The audience enjoys McCrorey YMCA dancers and drummers at the beginning of the Kwanzaa celebration Wednesday evening at Freedom Regional Library on Alleghany St. Second Calvary Youth Dancers and Second Calvary Daughters of Judas also performed.DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com
On December 26, 2014, Mayor Ras J. Baraka, members of the Newark Municipal Council, Mayor’s Office of Arts, Cultural Development and Tourism Executive Director Gwen Moten, lit the City of Newark’s official Kwanzaa Kinara in the first floor rotunda of City Hall.
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Students take part in a Kwanzza ceremony in Lord-Saunders lounge.
Kwanzza is a celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the African diaspora in the Americas and lasts a week. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.
Photo by Chris Schmucki '22
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 11, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Chapel in the Center of Faith and Life.
December 11, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
Edited Dawn PR image and visualization of Kwanzaa Tholus on Ceres. Annotated version by NASA.
Original caption: These images show a subtle feature on Ceres called Kwanzaa Tholus. Kwanzaa, meaning "first fruits" in Swahili, is an African-American festival based on ancient African harvest celebrations, and takes place from December 26 to January 1.
A tholus is a type of small mountain. Kwanzaa Tholus measures about 22 by 12 miles (35 by 19 kilometers) and is elevated about 2 miles (3 km) above its surroundings. Because the mountain does not rise sharply above the ground, it is difficult to see in the mosaic on the left, although a small crescent-shaped shadow stands out. The image on the right, which is an elevation map of the area, shows where Kwanzaa Tholus is more prominently.
The rounded shape of Kwanzaa Tholus is typical of tholi (plural of tholus) in general, but is different than other examples found on Ceres (like Dalien Tholus) and Mars. This region is particularly rich in this type of feature: The current Ceres map shows six named tholi and montes (slightly bigger mountains) in the region (centered around 32 degrees north, 327 degrees east) and several others including Ahuna Mons farther south.
Scientists say Kwanzaa Tholus may have once been as prominent as Ahuna Mons, the tallest and most noticeable mountain on Ceres. Ahuna Mons is likely a cryovolcano, a volcano formed by the gradual accumulation of thick, slowly flowing icy materials. Because ice www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/ceres-cryo-volcano/is not strong enough to preserve an elevated structure for extended periods, cryovolcanoes on Ceres are expected to gradually collapse over tens of millions of years. This means Kwanzaa Tholus and other tholi in that area could be degraded mountains, which also formed from cryovolcanic activity.
The mosaic on the left combines images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its high-altitude mapping orbit (HAMO) at about 915 miles (1,470 kilometers) above the surface. The spatial resolution is 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel.
Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Italian Space Agency and Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team.
For a complete list of Dawn mission participants, visit dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission.
For more information about the Dawn mission, visit dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Chapel in the Center of Faith and Life.
December 11, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
Luther College community celebrated Kwanzaa every year in order to recognize the uniqueness of the African American Heritage - Photo by Maria da Silva - Fall 2013
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 12, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 12, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
On December 29, 2014, Mayor Ras J. Baraka, members of the Newark Municipal Council, Deputy Mayor for International Relations and Diaspora Affairs Ugo Nwaokoro, Department of Neighborhood and Recreational Services Director Patrick Council, the City of Newark’s African Commission, the Office of Civic Engagement, in collaboration with Africa-Newark International, Believe in Newark Foundation, The Ghanaian Way Council, and local dignitaries will observed Kwanzaa with a community celebration held at John F. Kennedy Recreation Center.
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The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 12, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
Students take part in a Kwanzza ceremony in Lord-Saunders lounge.
Kwanzza is a celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the African diaspora in the Americas and lasts a week. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.
Photo by Chris Schmucki '22
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 12, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
Luther College community celebrated Kwanzaa every year in order to recognize the uniqueness of the African American Heritage - Photo by Maria da Silva - Fall 2013
This is the ninth time I've made daily posts of seasonal content during Advent and Christmastide, but this is the first time I've officially recognized Kwanzaa as a part of the holiday season. I've made one or more Hanukkah posts every year but the first; I always post something specific to New Year's Day, a holiday I don't even like; hell, most years I post something specific to the Feast of Holy Innocents. But not Kwanzaa. I think it has something to do with never having met anyone who celebrates it. I don't even remember it being observed or mentioned at my old Unitarian Universalist congregation in Virginia, which is pretty remarkable when you consider not only the Unitarian tradition of multicultural inclusiveness but also that UUCS counts among its members the chair of the African and African American Studies program at George Mason University. Or maybe I'm just racist. Who can say, really.
Kwanzaa cards are not tremendously easy to come by, and many of the ones that are available are not really suitable to be used for a project such as mine; either the image is smaller than I would like, or is watermarked in a way that I can't remove or minimize. (How dare they make it difficult for me to pirate their content!) But I did find this rather attractive card at CardsDirect, so take that, greetingcarduniverse.com!
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Luther College community celebrated Kwanzaa every year in order to recognize the uniqueness of the African American Heritage - Photo by Maria da Silva - Fall 2013
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 11, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
A Queen in the making~
Elder Adunni Oshupa Tabasi shares some of her wisdom with participants in the African Head & Bodywrap Workshop.
African Burial Ground
For More Info On Her Life: nkwanta.tripod.com/
~ELDER ADUNNI TRIBUTE~
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 12, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
... are placed on the mkeka, the straw mat, on the Kwanzaa table. Each ear of corn symbolizes a child in the family and the future that they embody.
Kwanzaa, a seven day long celebration for all people of African descent, was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga. It was created to reaffirm the culture, heritage, values and bonds that hold African Americans together as a people.
Kwanza means "first fruit" in Swahili. An extra "a" was added to the word in the name of the holiday, Kwanzaa, and in this way it has one letter for each of the 7 days of the celebration, December 26 to January 1.
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 12, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 12, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
A touch a New Orleans flair and fare at the Kwanzaa meal sharing - king cake. Twelfth Night was approaching, which marks the beginning of the Carnivale season - and daily king cake parties. (The plastic baby hidden in the pastry represents the wise men finding the baby Jesus.)
Luther College community celebrated Kwanzaa every year in order to recognize the uniqueness of the African American Heritage - Photo by Maria da Silva - Fall 2013
The Luther community marks the festival of Kwanzaa with a special Kwanzaa Dinner in the Peace Dining Hall.
December 11, 2015. Photo by Annie Goodroad '19
Here is a Bathing Suit made from African Body Wrap. All fashion and everything you wear comes from Africa!!!!
Elder Adunni Oshupa Tabasi shares some of her wisdom with participants in the African Head & Bodywrap Workshop.
African Burial Ground
For More Info On Her Life: nkwanta.tripod.com/
~ELDER ADUNNI TRIBUTE~