Planting seeds for the 45th Season of Kwanzaa

California Kwanzaa Celebration
International Year of People of African Descent

California State Capitol
West Steps ~ Capitol Rotunda Kwanzaa Ceremony
Sunday, December 26, 2010
10:15 a.m. ~ Press Conference

Crocker Art Museum
Kwanzaa Family Festival
216 O Street, Sacramento, CA
Noon ~ 4:00 p.m.

Wo’se Community Church of the Sacred African Way
Umoja Celebration
4311 Attawa Avenue, Sacramento, CA
4:00 p.m. ~ 6:00 p.m.

Sacramento, CA ~ California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association hosts our annual California State Capitol Kwanzaa Umoja Ceremony toward sharing a broader perspective of our “California Grown” holiday, lifting up Dr. Maulana Karenga its creator.

Kwanzaa is rooted in and developed out of the ancient origins of African first-fruit harvest celebrations and the modern origins of the Black Freedom Movement, Kwanzaa teaches and cultivates cultural grounding and ethical principles and practices dedicated to the cooperative creation and sharing of good in the world.

We join the United Nations by creating the California Working Group ~ Year of People of African Descent with the aim toward strengthening California, regional and local cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in relation to their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social, civil and political rights, their participation and integration in all political, economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture.

California remains firmly the #1 U.S. Agriculture State yet; today California Black Agriculture producers are less than 1/3 of 1% of all farmers in California. In the birth home of the United Nations, together we will join U.N. leadership to identify the challenges and opportunities to "Restore Agriculture as the foundation of African Culture, in the Greatest Garden in the World."

A new generation will embrace Black Agriculture for explosive job creation, career opportunities and economic development utilizing historical traditions and modern appropriate technology to lead the world providing “Healthy Solutions” for people of African descent suffering from diet related disease, globally.

We begin 45th Season of Kwaznaa, International Year of People of African Descent by addressing epidemic levels of violence, obesity and diabetes here in the “Greatest Garden of the World” the Central Valley in the Great State of California.

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