Kwanzaa is a celebration of faith and was first celebrated in 1966. It starts on December 26th and ends on January 1st. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one principle.
 
Day one: Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

Day two: Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.

Day three: Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.

Day four: Ujamaa (Cooperative economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Day five: Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

Day six: Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Day seven: Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.