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.

Event information
Flyer for the December 26 WorldBeat Cultural Center Kwanzaa events in San Diego Select the flyer to view it full size.

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
Flyer for the December 27 Kujichagulia event at the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit Select the flyer to view it full size.

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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Flyer for TARP’s December 29, 2026 Kwanzaa and Ujamaa Cooperative Economics program, 5–7 PM, introducing the returning study group Select the flyer to view it full size.

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.