Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 17 December 1998 — Page 1

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EDITORIAL Page 2 NEWS BRIEFS Pages 3,4 GUESS WHO Page 6 COMMUNITY FOCUS Page 7 MEN WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Page 10 SOCIAL SECURITY Page 14 CIVIL RIGHTS JOURNAL Page 28 COOKING Page 31 YOUTH SPOTLIGHT Page 32 IN COLORED CIRCLES Page 32 OBITUARIES Page 37 CLASSIFIEDS Pages 38, 39

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Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa

Muncie prepares for annual Kwanzaa fest Dec. 26 at Minnetrista

By T. S. Kumbula

At 6 p.m. on Dec. 26, the seventhth annual Kwanzaa celebration in Muncie will be held at Minnetrista Cultural Center, as this city’s residents join millions of Africans, African Americans and others in the United States and across the world in observing this growing post-

Christmas celebration.

The 7-day celebration ends Jan. 1 with a noon luncheon Jan. 1 at Mt. Zion Fellowship Center, First and

Penn streets, Muncie.

Over the years the Munc ; ~ celebration has continued to gam

adherents.

Kwanzaa, from a Swahili word, is a post-Christmas non-religious, nonsectarian holiday used by African Americans and other blacks around the world to celebrate family, community and culture. It was started in 1966 by Dr.

Dr. Maulana Karenga

The Founder of the Kwanzaa Holiday of Kwanzaa, he says, “The holiday of Kwanzaa is a product of cultural synthesis...Kwanzaa is a synthesis of both continental African and diasporan African cultural elements.”

From the African and African

American experiences he has woven

See KWANZAA pg. 5

Maulana Karenga, founder of Los Angeles-based US cultural organization and now chair of the black studies department at California State University, Long Beach. Since then it has grown each year. Upwards of 18 million of blacks in the United States, Africa. Europe and

the West Indies celebrate it. Karenga has been to Muncie

as a keynote speaker during Unity Week activities at Ball State

University.

Karenga based his Kwanzaa

on African festivals honoring the harvesting of the first fruit. In his little book The African American Holiday

See special insert on Whitely Historical Board honorees on page 15

Farewell Jacqueline Long By Judy Mays Over three hundred family members and friends filled the sanctuary of the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church to bid a loving farewell to Jacqueline Marian Long. Long served as the outreach coordinator for the Whitely Project Care office prior to illness.

Jacqueline Long

But, despite her illness, many testimonies conveyed that she never slopped reaching out. “She was always there for me” said Dorothea Bass. Bass had gone through a similar treatment for the kind of cancer Long succumbed to. The kind of concern Long had for others was also attested to by Sandra Rowe. “She stayed by my side when I had See LONG pg. 5