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Maulana Ron Karenga(b. Ronald McKinley Everett, July 14, 1941) is the person responsible for the first kwanzaa. The first celebration ran from the last week of December 1966 until New Year's Day 1967. Each year since, the event celebrates the African heritage of African-American communities in the United States of America.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoDr. Maulana Keranga founded the celebration of Kwanzaa, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In the good doctor's own book entitled: Kwanzaa, A Celebration of Family Community and Culture, he speaks of the first Kwanzaa celebration in Los Angeles in 1966.
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∙ 14y agoDr. Maulana Karenga founded kwanza and the year he founded it was in 1977 :)
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∙ 15y agoDr. Maulana Ron Karenga
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∙ 11y agoMaulana Karenga in 1966-1967
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