Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Kwanzaa

There's more to this holiday than just commemorating the black experience in America

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kwanzaa stamp

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By the 1990s, Kwanzaa had taken a place alongside Christmas and Hanukkah as a mainstream national holiday, with Hallmark creating Kwanzaa cards and the U.S. Postal Service introducing an official Kwanzaa stamp in 1997. The stamp has been reissued in various denominations four times.

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