Why is Kwanzaa celebrated from Dec. 26-Jan. 1. What is the importance/significance of these dates?

Answer 1

dr maulana karenga (i think that's the spelling but not sure)
chose it to be at the "holidays" which he decided to put
between x-mas and new years. it was a choice. he designed
kwanzaa in the 1960s. He wanted it at the x-mas time of year.
at the holidays. he wanted to design something that would
be a good celebration for african americans.
though it was based on a harvest festival from africa, that was just one thing dr. karenga used to design the holiday.

Answer 2

The 'feel good, non-holiday' of Kwanzaa is a celebration created by a Professor of Black History at the University of Pennsylvania in the 70's. His reasoning was that he felt Afro-Americans, as they were called then, need their own holiday to celebrate a bunch of African qualities that most Black Americans don't have. Like Hanukkah, he wanted it to be several days long, so it is! He also wanted it to be somewhere on the calender with the other seasonal holidays, and so it is!

I wonder how long it would take a Black American activist like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to yell 'racist' if a Professor of White History (position doesn't exist) decided white people needed a 'feel good' celebration for whites only? Hummmm!

Seems to me this professor is celebrating the separation of the races rather then their blending into a homogeneous society. Keep up the good work ... we'll never all get along together!

Answer 3

No signifigance, as kwanzaa was not holiday in Africa, as claimed, and was only recently made up here in the US. Somebody, like Jessie Jackson, just wanted to have air time.

Answer 4

Cheaper to buy presents after December 25th...everything is on sale.