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Imani Amos, Co-Founders of Chi-Village, the organization that puts on the event each year, says the tradition brings generations of people together, "I've been coming...

Community Connect: Free Kwanzaa Celebrations in Chicago And Malcolm X College hosts its annual Kwanzaa Celebration all week long through New Year's Day. They kicked it all...

Chicago celebrates 1st day of Kwanzaa with holiday events across city Families gather for music, tradition at Malcolm X College, Bronzeville Children's Museum https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-celebrates-1st-day-kwanzaa-holiday-events-city-including-malcolm-college-bronzeville-childrens-museum/18320253/

Malcolm X College kicks off a week of daily Kwanzaa celebrations on Friday, featuring live music, art, shopping markets, dance performances daily. “When we come...

Friday marks the beginning of Kwanzaa, and Malcolm X College in Chicago is holding a free, public celebration and marketplace from now until Jan. 1.

First day of Kwanzaa celebrates unity at Malcolm X College

Watch the full interview with Malcolm X College President David Sanders and Dean Barbara Meschino on YouTube In this special conversation, Coach Mo sits down...

Malcolm X College to Host Weeklong Kwanzaa Celebration and Marketplace (Chicago, IL) – Malcolm X College will once again transform its campus into a hub of...

Black men in the West Side community face some of the biggest hurdles to getting a degree. Just 1 out of 4 who make it...

 CHICAGO—(updated 12/15/2025) - Join Malcolm X College for a powerful Kwanzaa celebration like no other! This year’s theme is Building and Sustaining Community One Principle...

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City Colleges of Chicago is committed to supporting student well-being—inside and outside the classroom. As the need to access affordable food grows and as federal...

City Colleges leadership, faculty, staff, and students gathered with partners, supporters, and funders to celebrate all that has been achieved together over the past five...

As Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits run dry, some Chicago families have struggled to put food on the table — but communities, schools and businesses...

Kennedy-King College and the entire Englewood community to celebrate a new MacArthur Fellow and social justice artist, Tonika Lewis Johnson, share her film titled The...

With SNAP funding in jeopardy, City Colleges of Chicago and the Greater Chicago Food Depository join forces and sound alarm on food access   Read...