http://heartbookseries.com/heart-of-the-holidays/kwanzaa-7-day-pan-african-festival/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:16:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://heartbookseries.com/heart-of-the-holidays/kwanzaa-7-day-pan-african-festival/comment-page-1/#comment-689 Sheryl Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:49:51 +0000 http://heartbookseries.com/?p=120#comment-689 My simple defense of Kwanzaa is that in the short time that we celebrated the holiday, it brought my family together. We weren't hitting the after-Christmas sales or trying out our new bicycles. We were kneeling around an altar and watching as the water ran from the jug in my brother's hands. —Melonyce McAfee My simple defense of Kwanzaa is that in the short time that we celebrated the holiday, it brought my family together. We weren’t hitting the after-Christmas sales or trying out our new bicycles. We were kneeling around an altar and watching as the water ran from the jug in my brother’s hands.
—Melonyce McAfee

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