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This year, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root is highlighting one person from the community who exemplifies the…

This year, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root is highlighting one person from the community who exemplifies the…

This year, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root is highlighting one person from the community who exemplifies the…

This article originally ran on Dec. 27, 2017.

This year, The Root is making the blackest holiday of them all great again!

Yes, we’re serious. When I was asked (or, um, “volunteered”) to edit our Kwanzaa Week series, I was hype!

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