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Celebrate Kwanzaa with the BMQFG on Dec. 1

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The HFC Black Male QUEENS Focus Group (BMQFG) is hosting its annual Kwanzaa Celebration and Symposium on Wednesday, Dec. 1, from noon to 2:00 p.m. This event is being held on Zoom.

Please register to attend via Zoom

HFC students and BMQFG members Alanna Grace Marie Schwartz and Vanessa Newtown will give a presentation called The Significance of Kwanzaa: Meanings, Celebrations, and Reflections.

Kwanzaa – which means “first fruits” – is a week-long, annual celebration held in the United States and other nations to honor African heritage in African-American culture. It is observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, culminating in gift-giving and a feast.

The holiday was created by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University Long Beach, in 1966. He studied the celebrations of several different traditions, such as practices of the Ashanti and Zulu peoples, to establish Kwanzaa, which is a Swahili term (Swahili an African language that is widely spoken in Eastern and Southeastern African nations). The holiday has spread widely and is now celebrated by millions of people in the United States and worldwide.

For questions or more information about the BMQFG Kwanzaa celebration, contact Dr. Kalvin DaRonne Harvell at kharvell@hfcc.edu or Chardin Claybourne at cclaybourne@hfcc.edu.

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