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The big picture: Detroit's kinara in Campus Martius is the largest on earth, in one of America's largest majority-Black cities, according to officials who gathered Friday to celebrate the structure's installation.
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Annalise Frank, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
Locals lit a community kinara, a ceremonial candle holder, outside the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library, celebrating the third day of Kwanzaa, which began Dec. 26 and lasts until Jan. 1., with poetry and music.
—Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
These values are marked by lighting candles on a holder called a kinara – which holds three red candles, three green candles and a black candle in the center.
—Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
Kwanzaa candles are mounted on a candleholder called a kinara.
—Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2022
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Annalise Frank, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
Locals lit a community kinara, a ceremonial candle holder, outside the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library, celebrating the third day of Kwanzaa, which began Dec. 26 and lasts until Jan. 1., with poetry and music.
—Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
These values are marked by lighting candles on a holder called a kinara – which holds three red candles, three green candles and a black candle in the center.
—Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
Kwanzaa candles are mounted on a candleholder called a kinara.
—Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2022
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“Kinara.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kinara. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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