Kwanzaa

The Root host Felice Leon joins NBCLX to discuss the celebration of Kwanzaa and if the social reckoning that occurred throughout the country in 2020 has had an impact on the Kwanzaa tradition.

Kwanzaa is a week-long non-religious celebration of African-American culture and traditions. And while it was created in 1966 and has been popular since the 1980s, many people still don’t know much about it. LX Host Ashley Holt is here to explain what you need to know about this modern holiday.

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People can be hard to please when it comes to buying Christmas presents. Especially if they don’t know what they want themselves. A lot of people apparently turned to Google this year when they didn’t know what they wanted for the holiday, according to Google Trends’ round-up of the top questions about Christmas in the U.S. this...

About 30 babies being treated in a Kansas neonatal intensive care unit couldn’t go to the mall for a photo with Santa last week, so hospital staff members and volunteers brought the holiday cheer inside, the “Today” show reported. The little bundles of joy were dressed up as colorful presents for Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, thanks to hand-sewn costumes made...

Three retired judges will join a task force and review 3,000 past arrests as part of a probe involving 14 San Francisco city police officers linked to racist and homophobic text messages, a prosecutor said Thursday.

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said Friday he is recommending several officers be fired over accusations that they have exchanged racist and homophobic texts.