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  2. Kwanzaa - Wikipedia

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    He believed Jesus was psychotic and Christianity was a "White" religion that Black people should shun. [10] As Kwanzaa gained mainstream adherents, Karenga altered his position so practicing Christians would not be alienated, stating in the 1997 book Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture that "Kwanzaa was not created to give ...

  3. List of African-American holidays - Wikipedia

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    March 10: Harriet Tubman Day: 1: 2000: Maryland (2000) [10] The death of Harriet Tubman May 19: Malcolm X Day: 1: 2015: Illinois (2015) [11] The birthday of Malcolm X August 4: Barack Obama Day: 1: 2017: Illinois (2017) [12] The birthday of Barack Obama February 4: Transit Equality Day: 1: 2022: Wisconsin (2022) [13] The birthday of Rosa Parks ...

  4. Black August (commemoration) - Wikipedia

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    American prisoner artist, C-Note's, 2016, ink on paper artwork, Black August - Los Angeles. Black August is an annual commemoration and prison-based holiday to remember Black political prisoners, Black freedom struggles in the United States and beyond, and to highlight Black resistance against racial, colonial and imperialist oppression.

  5. 'A Festivus for the rest of us': The real, 'bizarre' story ...

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    According to lore, Dan's father invented the holiday for the very same reasons echoed in the sitcom episode: to have a secular occasion void of the consumerism that often characterizes Christmas ...

  6. Juneteenth explained: What is the holiday, why was it created ...

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    For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...

  7. Category:Unofficial observances - Wikipedia

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    N. Naked Mile (event) National Beer Day (United States) National Cartoonist Day; National Corndog Day; National Day of Listening; National Day of Reason

  8. African-American art - Wikipedia

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    The WPA led to a new wave of important black art professors. Mixed media, abstract art, cubism, and social realism became not only acceptable, but desirable. Artists of the WPA united to form the 1935 Harlem Artists Guild, which developed community art facilities in major cities. Leading forms of art included drawing, sculpture, printmaking ...

  9. Why is it called Black Friday? Here's the real history behind ...

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    The original "Black Friday" was almost certainly not considered a holiday. According to the History Channel, the name was first used to describe an 1869 financial crisis, in which corruption and ...