Kwanzaa lasts seven days ... On top of the mkeka goes the kinara, the candelabra that celebrates a family's ancestors. It holds the mishumaa saba, which are seven candles: three red, three ...

Kwanzaa was created in 1966 as a non-religious way for African Americans to reconnect with ancestral roots. A candle is lit each night on a seven-branched candelabra called the kinara. The candles ...