Celebrate sixty years of Kwanzaa.
Culture · Community · The next generation
Join The Afrikan Restoration Project for learning, celebration, and reflection on the Seven Principles—and the future we can build together.
Saturday · December 26, 2026
Kwanzaa for every generation.
WorldBeat Cultural Center
2100 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
Times shown are local to San Diego.
1–4 PM · Worldwide book debut
Kwanzaa – FOR KIDS (and everybody else!)
Read the new book together and explore lessons from its story, along with a Kwanzaa Essentials lesson, art, music, and Drum ’n Dance.
Featuring Karama Damu, one of the children who participated in the first Kwanzaa. Instructional content is provided by Imagiread Children’s Literacy Academy.
6–9 PM · Umoja / Unity Night presentation
Celebrating the First Sixty Years of Kwanzaa… and the Next!
Explore the past, present, and future of Kwanzaa and the Seven Principles, including a strategy to expand unity, understanding, and application of these teachings.
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Sunday · December 27, 2026
Kujichagulia: Day of Self-Determination.
Celebrating Sixty Years of Kwanzaa and the Self Determination of Elevating Blackness
2–5 PM · Local Detroit time
Charles H. Wright Museum
315 East Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201
Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Kwanzaa with the new book Kwanzaa – FOR KIDS (and everybody else!). Learn the new perspective it shares on the holiday’s origin and how it connects to the broader project of self-determination called Elevating Blackness.
Explore Elevating Blackness
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Tuesday · December 29, 2026
Kwanzaa and Ujamaa / Cooperative Economics
Preparing For the Next Sixty Years
The Afrikan Restoration Project’s
60th Anniversary Kwanzaa Program
5–7 PM
Join us for a presentation on the return of TARP’s study group and how we can prepare for the economic changes coming with A.I. and robotics.
We will study Fundamentals of Economics by Dr. Tdka Maat Kilimanjaro, with additional insights from his book A.I., Africa & African Americans.
Beginning January 14, 2027
TARP study group returns. Active study resumes online on the second and fourth Thursday of each month, beginning with Fundamentals of Economics.
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Carry the principles forward.
Celebrate together
Bring your family and community into the conversation as we celebrate Kwanzaa’s first sixty years and look toward the next.