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DESCRIPTION:Sacramento, CA – Everyone is invited to come and experience our unique 
 “California Grown Holiday Celebration,” Noon, Saturday, December 29, 
 2018, on the Fourth Floor of our California State Capitol. \n\nIf you come, 
 you will experience a very special 20th Anniversary, California Capitol 
 State Capitol Kwanzaa Celebration, showcasing "Green the Church, First 
 Fruits of the Harvest” in the Farm to Fork Capital of America.\n\nKwanzaa 
 is both an ancient and modern celebration of the bounty of agricultural 
 harvests.  Long, before Nile Valley Civilizations build massive pyramids 
 and elaborate sacred science, many of the vast regions of throughout Africa 
 showcased the authentic agricultural legacy of people for thousands and 
 millions of years.  \n\nEnslavement interrupted the forward flow of 
 humanity.  Here in America, for several generations, people of Pan-African 
 ancestry lost much of our authentic cultural identification and ancient 
 traditions, even today we have no valued repository of the salient 
 contributions by people of Pan African ancestry here in the Capitol Region 
 of California, this 170th Anniversary Year of Historic Negro Bar, 
 Sacramento County.\n\nRight here in Sacramento, forced labor as chattel, 
 enslaved and uncompensated labor along with stolen intellectual innovation 
 created the economic engine of America’s and California's agriculture and 
 industrial industries.  Kwanzaa marked a unique, "California Grown" new 
 beginning of self-determination.    \n\n2019 will officially mark 400 years 
 since the arrival of the first enslaved Africans from Spanish Presidio 
 along the Kwanza River in today’s Angola.  Spanish soldier’s kidnapped 
 people from Southwestern Africa,  that ship was raided by pirates and those 
 first “20 odd Negroes” were enslaved from the ancient Kikongo 
 Civilization into the Virginia English Colony at today’s Fort Monroe, 
 Hampton Roads Harbor in August of 1619.  Indeed, the journey continues. 
 \n\nIn 1966, in the midst of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, founded 
 Kwanzaa as a spiritual, festive, joyous celebration of the oneness and 
 goodness of life, in the aftermath of the violent and destructive Watts 
 Riot.  The son of Maryland Black Farmers and Baptist preacher helped  
 restore, "first fruits of the harvest celebrations" today's Pan African 
 Holiday, opening the way toward fulfilling the King James Version of 
 Biblical Prophecy, Genesis 15:12-14.   \n\nToday, California is growing 5th 
 largest economy on earth.  The broad and deep Agriculture economy anchors 
 many "California Grown" products that enjoy the highest standard in the 
 world.\n\nCalifornia ranks No. 1 in U.S. fresh fruit production, growing an 
 overwhelming majority of our Nation’s grapes, strawberries, peaches, 
 nectarines, avocados, raspberries, kiwifruit, olives, dates, and figs.  
 California’s tree nut production supplies virtually all U.S. almonds, 
 walnuts, and pistachios.\n\nJob creation, career advancement and community 
 economic development is assured by a new generation of Black 
 Agriculturalists who are taking advantage of local opportunity while 
 expanding California ~ Pan African Global Trade and Commerce, in the spirit 
 of Kwanzaa.\n\nWe are proud to join the Green the Church Movement, an 
 initiative designed to tap into the power and purpose of the African 
 American church community, and to explore and expand the role of churches 
 as centers for environmental and economic resilience.  Reverend Dr. Ambrose 
 Carroll, our honored guest and featured speaker, works Nationwide to 
 empower church leadership and lay people develop practical solutions to 
 economic and environmental issues.\n\nBlack Agriculture throughout 
 California History, including early Native influence, Spanish enslavement, 
 Mexican freedom fighters and today’s State of California, we have a rich 
 agricultural heritage throughout, "the greatest garden in the 
 world."\n\nKwanzaa 2018, marks beginning of the 400th year commemoration of 
 fulfillment of prophecy a special time to re-imagine our globally 
 community, valuing, sustaining ancient/future scientific methods that 
 expand wisdom and understanding of "First Fruits of the Harvest."\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/15/18819180.php
SUMMARY:20th Anniversary California State Capitol Kwanzaa ~ Green the Church
LOCATION:California State Capitol\n10th and Capitol \nSacramento, CA \n4th 
 Floor\nHistoric John Burton Room
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/15/18819180.php
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