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Kwanzaa’s Creator

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Since it starts today, The Daily Caller did a recap on the man who invented the “African holiday.” “The creator of Kwanzaa is Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, a 76-year-old professor of Africana studies at California State University, Long Beach,” Eric Owens writes. “His real name is Ronald Everett. He was born in rural Maryland, the fourteenth child of a sharecropping Baptist minister.”

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