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\"The<\/a>
The Kwanzaa candle lighting ceremony commences in the African American Cultural Center on Dec. 9. (Max Sinton '15 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Voices of Freedom gospel choir sings during the Kwanzaa celebration. (Max Sinton '15 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shantel<\/a>
Shantel Honeyghan performs a dance and gives a Kwanzaa blessing to the audience. (Max Sinton '15 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A Kwanzaa meal is served at the African American Cultural Center on Dec. 9. (Max Sinton '15 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Members<\/a>
Members of the audience enjoy their meal at the African American Cultural Center's Kwanzaa night. (Max Sinton '15 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The African American Cultural Center’s annual Kwanzaa event included the lighting of candles, a blessing, and a shared meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-52422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uncategorized","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 01:40:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52581,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422\/revisions\/52581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/52384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52422"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=52422"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=52422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}