The weeklong festival of Kwanzaa began on Friday with much fanfare at Lake Street’s Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis.
“People want to belong,” Atum Azzahir, executive director of the Cultural Wellness Center, told WCCO News amidst the opening drum line. “It gives us unity, not necessarily with politics, but unity that says I am somebody and I am really, really human. I will endure.”
First observed in the 1960s, Kwanzaa is a celebration of African heritage and cultures. It happens every year from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1…