As Griffin put it, black nationalist Maulana Karenga "unveiled Kwanzaa in 1966 to fill the gaps where the U.S. had failed African Americans." "Unveiled," of course, amounts to a clever euphemism ...
According to history.com, Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black studies at California State University. Karenga had wanted Kwanzaa to bring the African ...