What happened to Kwanzaa?
"Does anyone remember that back in the early 1990s, AT&T ran television ads suggesting that blacks call their families during Kwanzaa using their telephone service? That stores stocked Kwanzaa candles and kente clothes? That student unions were festooned with Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag? In 1995, a local activist triumphantly told The Boston Globe, 'We're at the point now where Kwanzaa has gotten so big that we feel like Santa Claus is really on the way out.'"
Another episode of huffing and puffing to be five minutes behind the times. Read the rest here.
Thanks, Arts and Letters Daily.
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