Yonkers Insider: City of Yonkers: YONKERS MAYOR SPANO TO HOST ANNUAL PRE-KWANZAA COMMUNITY NETWORKING EVENT - THUR., 12/15 @ 5:30 P.M.

YONKERS MAYOR SPANO TO HOST ANNUAL PRE-KWANZAA COMMUNITY NETWORKING EVENT.

 

  Celebration to Highlight Women in Leadership & Business in Yonkers

 

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano will host his annual Pre-Kwanzaa Community Networking celebration Thursday, December 15 at 5:30PM at Yonkers City Hall (Rotunda), 40 South Broadway.

 

Open to the public, the event will include music, poetry and a Soul Food Feast.  While honoring the seven Principles of Kwanzaa (Ngozo Saba), various women in business and leadership will share what these principles represent to them as a stakeholder in the Yonkers community.

 

Kwanzaa is the modern African-American holiday created in 1966 by a Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor in the department of Black Studies at California State University, to promote the values of family, community and culture.