Kwanzaa Documentary (1990)

Kwanzaa: A Cultural Celebration (1990)
Kwanzaa, originally created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karengna as a black nationalist alternative to Christmas, has become a more and more widely observed cultural holiday. It provides African Americans with a unique celebration that is rooted in the rich African tradition of their ancestors and the symbolism of the African harvest. This program offers a look through the eyes of African Americans at the principles and practices
of this joyous holiday.

[@AlexisMorton]

Wow! Now this documentary is an inspiration that has taught me so much. Should be viewed by every member of the beloved community.

[@heathertea2704]

Heard of it Often, but never met anyone who celebrated Kwanzaa, in all my years.

[@heathertea2704]

@SHAR Reignn not into Religions of any Type.

[@kwameaboagye121]

Kwanzaa is an African cultural holiday and not a so called religious holiday.

[@eliezerrr]

Happy Kwanzaa my people’s ❤️🖤💚

[@thenopasslook]

This channel is immensely valuable!

[@WomenMovePowerfully]

Enjoyed this! My first time (tomorrow) celebrating Kwanzaa! Super excited! Here’s to new traditions for future generations! In JESUS name, AMEN 🙏🏾💜🕊

[@littlegothgirl8869]

✊

[@juzeljames7793]

Lmao

[@CarbonDFly25]

😅😅😅 in jesus name 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@t.montonmusic9344]

You know Jesus means hail zesus right

[@ShaneM420]

What do you do to celebrate KWANZAA

[@CapitalG222]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kwendeukaidi4290]

Asante sana (Much thanks) ReelBlack for putting this out in order that the Afrikan world community can share in a glimpse of their own self-determined journeying in celebration of their wonderful observance of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa yenu iwe na heri ! (May your Kwanzaa be with happiness).

[@Angela-ny9di]

This video is a gift and gem. I was in the middle of decorating my home and this video gave me more inspiration. Thank you!

[@kwameaboagye121]

Kwanzaa inspires me for twenty six years and it’s harmless and godly. Ase to Baba Maulana Karenga founder of Kwanzaa. Ase to Baba Kwame Nkrumah Ase to Baba Malcolm X Ase to Baba Fred Hampton Ase to Baba Walter Rodney Ase to Baba Thomas Sankara Ase to Baba Steve Biko Ase to Baba Robert Sobukwe Ase to Baba Chris Hani Ase to Baba Martin Delaney Ase to Baba Edward Wilmot Blyden Ase to Mama Yaa Asantewaa Ase to Mama Harriet Tubman Ase to Mama Nozamo Mandela Ase to Mama Fannie Lou Hamer and Ase to Mama Constance Cummings John I have been to our Kwanzaa events in London in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. When so called Covid arrived I wasn’t able to go to our Kwanzaa holidays. I honoured it at home instead. Am looking forward to Kwanzaa this month and I won’t allow the virus put me off.

[@rholalbi8155]

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[@jerusalemspacal546]

Thank you uploading this incredible informative video this I believe is another important holidays for all of our own ppl to celebrate practice and embrace within our community

[@sarakiahmebemeye2542]

Asante Sana for making this documentary available,so easily understood!!!❤️🖤💚

[@seyijames7439]

Heard my Language, Yoruba at the beginning which excited me.

[@jon_s]

This was the time when African Americans still had hope. Now it's all over. They've accepted whatever Eurocentrism defines them as. Very sad

[@gwendolynwilliams1730]

@@jon_s Their still hope.

[@jon_s]

@@gwendolynwilliams1730 no indication

[@azaniabantuzulu]

Oludumare

[@imauniryne6757]

@@jon_sI’m 19 and yep I definitely agree with you

[@mossiahcreatordesigner.5366]

Support our people! Thank you #reelblack!

[@queenwere1]

Well done for the information

[@hazel1190s]

Ty. We doing kwanzaa this year. Its very enlightening.

[@wycliffewaweru488]

Nawatakia nyote heri na fanaka mnapo sherehekea Kwanza (I Wish you all good fortune and prosperity as you celebrate Kwanza ) Ase

[@kincamell2]

Much Gratitude

[@djsalseromusica5433]

Thank you this is great, this gave me much more understanding..

[@Broj96_]

I need this on DVD !♥️♥️♥️

[@autismmomjoy]

Happy Kwanzaa

[@kwameaboagye121]

Whether you are Yoruba, Ga, Hausa, Shona, Mende, Igbo, Mandingo, Akan and Arabic Kwanzaa is for Africans at home and abroad. Kwanzaa is our beautiful festive holiday for seven days. Baba Molefi Kente Asante our great African scholar anthropologist healer and author.

[@Horsewrangler780]

Africans have never even heard of kwanzza gtfoh stop acting like you didn't copy Hanukkah. You people really need to stop stealing other people's culture mainly you ones in America.

[@gwendolynwilliams1730]

@@Horsewrangler780 you lost soul/ apparently you're not paying attention or listening.

[@franklinbadge1215]

@@Horsewrangler780 They haven't heard of Juneteenth either, and that's a holiday. Why do you care so much?

[@kwameaboagye121]

@@Horsewrangler780 We have now. Nice try white boy.

[@rholalbi8155]

Arabic ? 😡🙅🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️why 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@lordunderstanding8973]

Very informative, I honestly never knew what Kwanza was about, this is a great foundation.

[@mightymouse151]

Thank you so much.

[@anitawilson1284]

Very comprehensive! Thanks! 🙏🌎❤️

[@mzeeali8840]

Most of all there has to black (self-love) love & respect for each other.

[@Goldengirl48]

Very interesting documentary.

[@ashiacameron]

✊🏾✊🏽✊🏾✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏾✊🏽

[@tracywebb1061]

Thanks for sharing 🎉

[@ayananelson1223]

Happy Kwanzaa ❤️💚🖤

[@DenelsiaWalker]

Thank you for this video🎉🎉🎉 #olodumare

[@kokayiufanifu8309]

Kwanza which is Kiswahili meaning 'first' so in my mind Kwanzaa should be at the beginning of the holiday season not the last. September 25th to October 1st is in Autumn in North America the time of harvest!

[@bloodstone816]

Axé and Asante Sana

[@Josiah-X]

Oh wow, this whole documentary was filmed in Baltimore. I saw several people I personally know/knew in the video. Baba Zirikote, who passed away this year 2021(May he Rest In Power), Sankofa Drum & Dance Group, Daki, Brotha Nati who partly owns Everyone's Place, The Great Blacks and Wax Museum, etc. I also know Baba Ademola the narrator of this video. It says this documentary is actually made in 1990.

[@nicolelovett8467]

oh wow thank you for this comment! That's amazing, Rest In Peace to Baba Zirikote

[@comptonclay6454]

Marcus Garvey

[@rpcrealpeopleconsulting6324]

awesome

[@diamndz1021]

that was great

[@lisawalls1007]

BLESSED EVENING STAY SAFE

[@elainequeens8490]

Happy Kwanzaa: Umoja (Unity)

[@googlegilbertlevinmars322]

The real chosen people

[@Stickyricey]

💥💥💥💥😍

[@jeniferwashingtontherealto6449]

Very well said to bring our people back economically to their original greatness I don’t

[@stuymejr4657]

29 years later im here at 31 1/2 .Blessings to my Isrealites

[@finished6267]

Howabout we reject all of their holidays and celebrations instead of copying them? It's pathetic.

[@injuryadvocates7602]

What is means Kwanzaa copying? Did you think before you texted? Couldn't have

[@RaKhaanambamm]

I enjoyed very much! I’d be interested in a follow up on the organizations featured. Great media book for all. Sing! KWANZAA! 🙌🏽 ❤️🖤💚💛

[@injuryadvocates7602]

I was thinking the exact thing. Should list names and contact info of the programs

[@Ron_F]

although mualana karenga is a sell out and despotic monster and the name kwanzaa has been trademarked by Jewish owned companies.. I still celebrate the principles days and traditions. Asante sana for this brah✊🏿✊🏿❤🖤💚

[@sharris3480]

where did you find this information sir? please let me know!

[@Ron_F]

@@sharris3480 dr. John Henrik Clark lecture on the Million man march .

[@seanberry1969]

💕

[@301cameosis]

Baltimore in the house...

[@andretill9733]

I knew nothing on Kwanza unt now. Thank you Jesus!

[@TheManWhoStoleTheShadows]

I'm confused, in less than 2 minutes there was a jarring contradiction. At 1:50 its stated that Kwanzaa is not a religious celebration, and yet the video opens with libations to Amon Ra and God(I'm honestly assuming Abrahamic)? Was that an in the beginning doing an unrelated ritual? And if so why is it included without context? I came to learn but I'm being given more questions than answers.

[@TheEpiphanyPortal]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@mgoVEX]

Kwanzaa’s principles are a lifestyle and mindset that you live everyday. The Kente clothes and drums 🪘 are just for show and meaningless rituals. Do the Kwanzaa principles all year long and your community will improve.

[@emmannthompson6221]

Do you guys have any self esteem as to what you guys are saying

[@emmannthompson6221]

This is history and you are denying history and that my friend is bad

[@mzeeali8840]

The dancing is a self-defense form

[@mgoVEX]

@@mzeeali8840 👍

[@jwren007]

❤️🖤💚

[@bobbye.wright4424]

Blacknificent

[@kwameaboagye121]

Hotep Brother Bobby Ase o Ase I 🖤Kwanzaa and unashamedly so

[@beirutbrown]

Can someone please tell me who was speaking at the beginning with the drums going and where can I find that

[@beirutbrown]

@reelblack where can I find the Intro please?

[@noble_librarian6146]

@@beirutbrown I believe it's the narrator/host playing the drums & pouring the libations: Ademola Ekulona

[@drbiyayaibebambah.c.1646]

Dombé, a PanAfrican Festive Celebration!!! Partial announcement and presentation of Dombé, a celebration of PanAfricanism of Festivities by Dr. Bamba(S.C.), H.c. The prefix "Don" (Dom) in Primary Mandé means Dance and party and the suffix "bé" means big. Dombé has 10 Principles based on the 10 Commandments of Conservative PanAfricanism which are as follows: 1. Believing in one Supreme God. 2. Believing in the Spirits of Nature. 3. Believing in Ancestor Spirits. 4. Believing in Afro - Optimism. 5. Believing in Actions for Moderation and Modesty. 6. Believing in the Worship of God through the Ancestors and Spirits materialized by appropriate Idols. 7. Believing in a Job Well Done in Morality. 8. Believing in the Practices and Preservations of our Major Cultural and Linguistic Heritages. 9. Believing in Humanism, Goodness of All Kinds and Not the Contrary. 10. Believing in Just and Equitable Laws in Phase with Our Socio - Cultural Paradigms. The Celebration takes place over 10 Days, from the 1st Commandment to the 10th in the respective order of the 10 Commandments. For its beginnings, the Celebrations will be more or less in the Forms of Wishes, written and / or oral presentations or presentations, Presentations of Videos and / or Audios and others all adequate to each Day relating to each Commandment. At the moment, the dates are flexible given the African (Kamates) and Diasporic contingencies. For this reason, the dates of December 24 to January 2 are currently selected for Our Virtual Celebrations for this Year 2022. Happy Virtual Dombé Celebrations from Dr. Bamba(S.C.), H.c. Dr. Bamba(S.C.), H.c., International Activist in Pluralist PanAfricanism with his big Cap of PanAfricanism of Festivities. Pluralist PanAfricanism WhatsApp links: WhatsApp link of the 1st Pluralist PanAfricanism Group: chat.whatsapp.com/IFzm8jS42Dw3O0bGotbeXI. WhatsApp link of the 2nd Pluralist PanAfricanism Group: chat.whatsapp.com/J3kLA81N2g78DcZFmerauk. WhatsApp link of the 3rd Pluralist PanAfricanism Group: chat.whatsapp.com/LAKJlamQQGq6kCdCXmuE89. Date: 01 / 04 / 2021. Update date: 26 /12 / 2022.

[@stuckintha90s]

When I hear Kwanzaa I think of that Xmas episode of Everybody Hates Chris 😅

[@ShitStainedBallSack]

Futurama

[@jon_s]

Pouring libation to children is a new one. We never do that in Africa. Libation is strictly for the ancestors

[@ShitStainedBallSack]

In 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felony assault and false imprisonment. One of the victims gave testimony of how Karenga and other men tortured her and another woman. The woman described having been stripped naked and beaten with an electrical cord. Karenga's estranged wife, Brenda Lorraine Karenga, testified that she sat on the other woman's stomach while another man forced water into her mouth through a hose.

[@greenbyrd3665]

Yes. Me Too needs to catch up to this man. Cosby did nothing close to the terrorism this man committed. Get him and his non black wife as well.

[@5108hailey]

😢 Can’t support an organization which the Creator torture Women’s…

[@ShitStainedBallSack]

@@5108hailey not many can

[@youngvet88]

Fam I take back my rhetoric on meaning

[@joethescholar9078]

Kwanzaa was created by a C.I.A. operative named Karenga who was leader of the US organization that killed 2 prominent Black Panther members on the UCLA campus to stop the progress of the L.A. chapter of the Panthers as ordered by the C.I.A.

[@mzeeali8840]

You're a agent.

[@joethescholar9078]

@@mzeeali8840 I'm a scholar. Dr. Karenga is an agent. You, like most black people, don't know who our enemies are because you don't know our real history.

[@mzeeali8840]

@@joethescholar9078 excuse you. I know what a agent is. You're the agent. A gossiper.

[@joethescholar9078]

@@mzeeali8840 you don't even have anything on your page. My page is full of the black history that's been hidden from us by white America's schools and media. If anyone is an agent here it's you. Definitely a defender for white supremacy.

[@mzeeali8840]

@@joethescholar9078 like I have typed you're agent. Spreading gossip. It mean nothing that you post ourstories. I'm far from being agent. Dr. Khalid Muhammad was my Capt.

[@livefromplanetearth]

💒💒💒🌱🌱🌱

[@marcusharris2401]

Didn't an FBI informant, leader of US group, whom hunted BPP start Kwanaza aka Ron Kawanga. We didn't celebrate Kawanza. I personally dont know anyine who has a 7 candle stick

[@sanifuonajemwananchi5523]

This post is mis-dated. It was actually produced in 1990, not 1993!

[@reelblack]

Thank You

[@victorthomas7667]

Merry Christmas ADOS and Stay Safe...

[@kwameaboagye-cl9me]

You can celebrate mental genocide holidays, not me

[@kosmalaanimations2864]

ok

[@curtismoss8616]

Wakanda

[@baypalobeezy4436]

Is Kwanzaa in the same category of Ifa Religion?

[@beirutbrown]

@reelblack where is can I find d the intro please?

[@Blowupxeslana]

FIB

[@cryptowalk1387]

Dr. Karanga of US & a professor at Cal State Long Beach fame, stole the idea of Kwanza .

[@sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262]

Why would a holiday using Swahili language apply to all black people, most of whom have no relation at all to Swahili people?

[@MIKE_THE_BRUMMIE]

My Kinara never came with a father

[@nenecookz927]

16:32 he has a Trini accent

[@Earlmatic2.0]

Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett, July 14, 1941),[1][2][3] previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American professor of Africana studies, activist, and author best known as the creator of the pan-African and the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa.......In 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to 10 years in prison on counts of felony assault and false imprisonment.[16] One of the victims gave testimony of how Karenga and other men tortured her and another woman. The woman described having been stripped naked and beaten with an electrical cord. Karenga's estranged wife, Brenda Lorraine Karenga, testified that she sat on the other woman's stomach while another man forced water into her mouth through a hose........black Americans all folks ain't ya kinfolks....stay woke tho

[@mzeeali8840]

Another agent

[@Earlmatic2.0]

@@mzeeali8840 who's the agent?

[@mzeeali8840]

@@Earlmatic2.0 you're agent. Spreading gossip. You weren't there.

[@Earlmatic2.0]

@@mzeeali8840just go do your research bro ...all u gotta do is read 📚 a Lil bit🥴🤣🤣

[@mzeeali8840]

@@Earlmatic2.0 oh boy another agent.

[@powerplay4real174]

KUUMBA

[@meygunmantle8189]

Tribett

[@TheMabes69]

The black family has really deteriorated in the last 5o years. This was made in 1993. It's so much worse.

[@naranara1690]

17:58 baby jumpscare

[@Jhh241]

This is not my reparations the creator of this holiday is a sell out

[@fioredeutchmark]

Happy Kwanza to the dozen completely delusional people who celebrate it (of which maybe more than half will be white liberal women with thick glasses, dyed hair and trans flags on their wall while doing their best impression of a moral exhibitionist 👍) The rest of the Black community will be celebrating Christmas (or possibly has just celebrated Hanukkah, I’m looking at you my Ethiopian cousins) like normal people and not perpetuating nonsensical racist division like this. Remember, no one can tell the colour of your skin in the fire of Hell or the light of God.

[@scorpio6481]

Delusional. Normal. Nonsensical. Let's see, shall we??? A fat white man in a red suit with a fur collar can fly in a sleigh powered by 8 reindeer around the world (including South America where it's the summer season now) in one night sliding down chimneys (many with real fires going) with a bag of gifts (made by little elves) for every man, woman and child (who were good, of course, And a lump of coal for the naughty ones), drinking all the milk and eating all the cookies left out by millions and he does this by himself. Or is he helped out by the dare I say, millions of other "Santas" that spend precious weeks in advance at nearly every mall and shopping center across the globe? And if you could answer two more questions, 1) If we can sit and take pictures with him at the malls, why is it taboo to see him when he delivers our gifts? It would be nice to thank him in person. 2) Why do so many people spend so much money that they really can't afford to buy gifts to impress people that they don't know or may not even like? I thought Santa was the one to do all of that. MAYBE IT'S JUST YOUR "BLACK" FAMILY THAT WILL BE CELEBRATING X-MAS. HAPPY KWANZAA!!!

[@littlegothgirl8869]

You gotta be a troll 🤣 This isn't divisive. It was literally made for African Americans to celebrate their heritage. If that is something that offends you then it sounds like you're the one with the problem. I'm gonna start celebrating both.

[@fioredeutchmark]

Bet both the people replying are white 😂

[@fioredeutchmark]

@@scorpio6481 😂 why did you waste your time with that inarticulate diatribe? The commercialisation of Christmas into its current secular form has been a process of hundreds of years and not an invention of the radical communist left in the late 1960’s. Kwanzaa also is literally a Swahili word so is in and of itself completely divisive within the African American community as not even close to a majority (or even a significant minority) of African Americans can claim any Swahili heritage. (Did you even know there were different African cultures that are completely different from one another 😱) Santa is based on a number of different European traditions namely a conglomeration of Northern European traditions surrounding St. Nicolas and Black Peter. Kwanza was invented from thin air with no tradition only that black people (specifically from the us) are in some way part of a ‘Black’ nation undivided but for the influence of the white man. This is especially funny when you understand that Liberia (a country founded by free black slaves) only got rid of plantation slavery (against the native African blacks) in the same decade. P.S. Rwanda would like a word about the constant, insanely racist American liberal idea that all black people from Africa share some common ancestry and a future common national identity 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@fioredeutchmark]

@@littlegothgirl8869 what heritage do African Americans specifically have that isn’t part of all other Americans history and cultural heritage? Before you say slavery I’ll point out that freed black slaves returned to Africa after the civil war and founded Liberia which up until the year my parents were born still practiced slavery as was done in the plantations of the south more than 100 years prior. So that’s blacks enslaving blacks for 30% longer than white people did *at least* Never mind that slavery is an open practice in many African cultures currently. To make a festival with the express idea of creating cultural upheaval is inherently divisive. Maybe you don’t understand the English language but it’s as clear a definition of (a needless cultural) dividing line as I can think of.

[@davonevans8840]

HARAMBE

[@krl8814]

How Kwanzaa cons you

[@jonesdiih6757]

Derek I thought you're in prison.....

[@krl8814]

@@jonesdiih6757 yes I am here in prison I have internet access I have a tablet into cell phone in my cell

[@krl8814]

@@jonesdiih6757 I just spend my day on the internet Cruisin KZbin channels

[@krl8814]

@@jonesdiih6757 when I get out of jail I'm going to start my own KZbin channel what it's like being a convicted felon

[@moonfall9354]

@@krl8814 is this actually

[@annabellaboyer643]

Afrika is allways exzisted?That lies the cultuur. Amen.

[@victorthomas7667]

ADOS celebrate Christmas, not Pan Africanism

[@injuryadvocates7602]

Wowwwww if only you knew how you SOUNDED

[@victorthomas7667]

​@@injuryadvocates7602 Merry Christmas and Stay Safe...

[@littlegothgirl8869]

Speak for yourself, Victor. I am both AA an a Pan Africanist

[@victorthomas7667]

@@littlegothgirl8869 Pan Africanism is DEAD

[@emmannthompson6221]

Is this person who is commenting a black person because he or she sounds like a hater

[@LokiLL999]

Lmao 🤣

[@the2ndcoming135]

When your dad has you on automatic because only a select few has knelt to you so far🤦🏻‍♀️

[@PoliticsAzUsualAsItSeems]

Too bad it's not ours... Nor the holidays in America.... Blacks in America we're told they were Africans.... Almost the same as saying Mexicans aren't Americans when living in a state/ Land that is connected onto the continent of the United States... Just had to say this for black Americans here who is accepting this as if it is ours😉

[@injuryadvocates7602]

Wowwwww if only you knew how you SOUNDED

[@littlegothgirl8869]

🤔? It was literally created by an African American.

[@PoliticsAzUsualAsItSeems]

@@littlegothgirl8869 We gotta remember before Jesse Jackson was told to tell us that we were Africans.. There was just nicca.. Imean it took till the 80s to tell blacks of America they were Africans.. shtd what about those of the Caribbeans are they labeled African so and so? Yet if the African American created it from African culture, he or she's was mislead as well...

[@PoliticsAzUsualAsItSeems]

@@injuryadvocates7602 I sound Like a person who know his history and we're those people offsprings from the slave boats came here...We also know they're were other colored people who werent Africans yet lived in the continent.. Almost as silly as it may sound to the unlearned.. Example Mexicans in their state is a part Americas country Right?. But why aren't they called or looked at as Americans the same way blacks are, or could be indentified as an American. Send the Mexicans away to another country, Wod they be identified as Americans.. Umm look at Florida, it s connected and are blacks their referred to as American? Why not Mexican people.. when they ve been here Sinse they were identified as Indians. Which they are.. Did you know that? So do I still sound stupid?

[@Horsewrangler780]

Lmao this is a made up holiday, it doesnt exist and never will be recognized as a said holiday. Funniest crap I've ever heard.

[@shaolinslumz2702]

If you are American . You are American , when’s the last time you took Part in a tribe , us Mexicans don’t go back and start riding donkeys lol . No need to think of continuous oppression. This is a mind trap

[@Eidelmania]

Why don't you go preach that totalitarian crap to Italian Americans?!

[@KULTURESHOKENT]

Happy Kwanzaa

[@rockkojinkinz528]

Happy Kwanzaa