Kwanzaa is a week-long African-American festival (December 26-January 1) The festival comes from the East-African Swahili phrase "Marunda Ya Kwanzaa," which means "first fruits of the harvest," and was established in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a leading theorist of African-American history and culture to cultivate our culture to ensure a thriving, flourishing, successful, strong, vigorous, profitable, lucrative, expanding, booming and in other words prosperous future. We must work tirelessly to employ these principles as a part of our lives. As a cultural celebration, Kwanzaa has no ties to specific religious beliefs or practices. However, where God's people are gathered together He is in the midst! The first principle of Kwanzaa is Umoja (oo-MOE-jah) Unity--To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. This is symbolic of the foundational principle and practice of unity which makes all else possible. Find ways to unify s