45th Annual Kwanzaa Celebration Performance: Harpist Mariea Antoinette Starla Lewis Starla Lewis is a Professor Emerita of Black Studies at San Diego Mesa College, a renowned cultural leader, and the founder of C.E.L.L. (Celebration of Everlasting Life & Love). With more than forty years dedicated to education, diversity work, and women’s empowerment, she has inspired […]

45th Annual Kwanzaa Celebration Day 2: Saturday, December 27th: Kujichagulia- Self-Determination  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black & Book Signing Performance: Harpist Mariea Antoinette Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Carnegie Mellon University professor whose groundbreaking scholarship brings forward hidden histories of the African diaspora, rice cultivation, […]

45th Annual Kwanzaa Celebration Keynote Speakers: Ayanna Gregory & Shugri Said Salh Performance: Tebe Zalango Ayanna Gregory Ayanna Gregory is an educator, singer, dramatist, and activist whose work is rooted in healing, truth-telling, and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. The daughter of human rights icon Dick Gregory, she uses music, theater, and storytelling […]