Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI
Now that my triumph over Kwanzaa is nearly complete, I’m continuing the tradition of writing about it this time of year, merely to dance on its grave.
According to Google N-gram, book mentions of “Kwanzaa” got off to a roaring start around 1980 — or about a dozen years after it was invented out of whole cloth — soared in usage over the next decade, but then began a precipitous decline in 2000, coincidentally, the year of my first annual Kwanzaa column.




