Viewfinder: The African Heritage Dancers Celebrate Kwanzaa

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Dec 28, 2017

African Heritage Dancers dance to the African Heritage Drummers during a Kwanzaa celebration at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C. Kwanzaa is a pan-African holiday established in 1966 celebrating family, community, and culture through seven principles of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.
(Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

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