Kwanza Traditions
The number of candles lit during Kwanzaa celebration
What are seven candles?
Jim Carrey starred in this holiday classic, released in the year 2000
What is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?/ The Grinch
What we leave for Santa the night of Christmas
What are Cookies and Milk?
This holiday classic hit is one of the best-selling singles of all time and has topped the Billboard Hot 100 from 2019 to 2025.
What is All I Want For Christmas?
Who played Santa in Friday After Next?
Ricky Smiley and John Witherspoon
This tool is central to the celebration of the Kwanzaa festival.
What is a Kinara?
"Keep the change ya filthy animal" is a quote from this famous holiday franchise.
What is Home Alone?
This treat is a mixture of both minty and sweet, and it can be made with both dark and white chocolate.
What is peppermint bark?
This classic Christmas carol speaks about a quiet, calm night and the wonder of a tender and mild newborn child.
What is Silent Night?
What is Sleigh Ride?
The typical length of Kwanzaa celebrations
What is a Week?
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a young boy on a journey of friendship and discovery.
This drink warms both the spirit and the soul especially during the cold winter nights
What is Hot Cocoa
This bittersweet holiday tune talks about heartbreak and a failed relationship, where the singer reflects on giving his heart away.
What is Last Christmas?
This 1996 movie, which features a Black Family, became a Christmas classic that starred Whitney Houston
What is The Preacher's Wife?
The event held on the sixth day of the Kwanzaa celebration
What is The Karamu Feast?
This movie released in 1993 showcases the plight of a king to take over the holiday of Christmas.
What is the Nightmare before Christmas"?
This treat was recently part of Umoja's finals-week relaxation activities.
What are Gingerbread Houses?
This R&B singer gave his take on this holiday classic by Donny Hathaway, which was also used for a popular black holiday film.
What is Chris Brown's "This Christmas"?
What traditional soul food meat appears on Black Christmas tables instead of turkey?
What is Ham?
The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa
What is Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba, and Imani
This 1983 Christmas film is based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash and follows a young boy as he attempts to convince his parents to get him his dream Christmas gift.
What is Christmas Story?
This holiday drink concoction has become a Christmas staple and a symbol of good fortune in America due to the abundance of ingredients here that are used to make it.
What is EggNog?
This popular Christmas song was the first song ever to be played in space in 1965.
What is Jingle Bells?
What City is known for its large Black Christmas parades and holiday festivals?
What is Atlanta,Georgia?