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DESCRIPTION:Kwanzaa Diamond Jubilee - "Matunda Ya Kwanza" opens the way towards a new 
 beginning.\n\nWhen the authentic beginning is known, the ending will not 
 trouble you much.\n\nKwanzaa began from the aftermath of the Watts 
 Rebellion in Los Angeles and reflects a much broader freedom struggle by 
 people of Pan African ancestry throughout America and beyond.\n\nEarly 
 California Pioneers of Pan African Ancestry, both enslaved and free, were 
 well established throughout California during the transition from Mexican 
 rule to US rule, and here along the American River Basin at the confluence 
 apart of the broader Sacramento River Basin the story remains an "open 
 secret" by design.\n\nEntire historic towns and settlements throughout 
 California, including those along today's American River Parkway 
 demonstrates the ongoing need to remember, recommit and reconnect to the 
 spirit of "Matunda Ya Kwanza." \n\nEstablished in 1844, Rancho Rio de Los 
 Americanos, a cattle and wheat agribusiness was owned by the "African 
 Founding Father of California" Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, 
 Jr., showcasing what "free" African Americans were able to express ancient 
 agricultural traditions from the Pan African Diaspora, soon come alive 
 again, to help educate and restore Agriculture production as the corner 
 stone foundation of our Pan African cultures. \n\nCalifornia Black 
 Veterans, who have served here in the Sacramento Valley since the initial 
 California Bear Flag Revolt, June 1846.  Many esteemed ancestors and elders 
 continue to demonstrate the ancient spirit of the Nguzo Saba, 7 principles 
 of Kwanzaa in a daily practice.\n\nThis special 160th Anniversary Year of 
 the Buffalo Soldiers, we recall the 1,918 USCT enlistees from the State of 
 California who fought, bleed and died to help preserve the Union and end 
 chattel slavery throughout America at the 1865 close of the US Civil War, 
 we will one day officially celebrate an aligned Title 5 US Federal Holiday 
 of Juneteenth throughout the State of California.  September 22, 1866, the 
 Buffalo Soldiers first formation near Congo Square, New Orleans, Louisiana 
 and brought forth a reconnected Ancient Pan African Cavalry and Horseman 
 legacy to Union Square, San Francisco in the "Summer of 1903."\n\n100 years 
 from June 1865, Juneteenth, later the aftermath of the Los Angeles Watts 
 Rebellion in 1965, our "California Grown" Pan African Global Holiday 
 Kwanzaa was born out of the struggle towards a greater measure of freedom, 
 during our US Civil Rights Movement expressed in a bloody and costly 
 uprising in Southern California.\n\nDr. Maulana Karenga, brought forth 
 remembrance of the earliest recorded "First Fruits of the Harvest" recorded 
 by Nile Valley Civilization long ago and the agriculture bounty from 
 throughout the African continent was synthesized as part of a much larger 
 education academic scholarship effort by Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa was 
 first introduced in 1966 as a 7-day holiday season.\n\nOur California Black 
 Agriculture Working Group, continues to build upon our rich history and 
 shares part of our Pan African legacy toward a renaissance of Black 
 Agriculture, globally.  \n\nThis special 28th Year of our California State 
 Capitol Kwanzaa effort, remains a blessing to behold, we celebrate a 
 wonderful challenge and look forward to returning inside our California 
 State Capitol in the near future, enjoying brand new first class 
 accommodations with the long awaited completed billion dollar tax-payer 
 investment in the "People's Capitol." \n\nAncient pristine waters meet, 
 near the historic Old Sacramento River District, at the confluence of the 
 Sacramento River and American River, our Holy Sacrament, long before 
 European colonization and American rule, the custodians of these lands, 
 align with the rebirth and regeneration of ancestral wisdom, A'ho, all my 
 relations. \n\nHabari Gani, What's the News?\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/11/09/18890112.php
SUMMARY:60th Anniversary of our "California Grown" Pan African Global Holiday - Kwanzaa
LOCATION:California State Capitol West Steps\n10th & Capitol Mall\nDowntown 
 Sacramento, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/11/09/18890112.php
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