{"id":71676,"date":"2025-12-28T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:56:10","slug":"scrantons-kwanzaa-event-unites-community-through-art-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71676\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton&#8217;s Kwanzaa event unites community through art and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, folks celebrated the second day of Kwanzaa in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> at the Black Scranton Project&#8217;s open mic jam session along North Main Avenue in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Performers took the stage to showcase their skills, while visitors explored Kwanzaa history displays and artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>Glynis Johns, Founder and CEO of Black Scranton Project, says the event was an opportunity for people to learn about the project and meet local bands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not based on a religion, it&#8217;s not based on your color, it&#8217;s not based on your race or ethnicity, it&#8217;s really just about celebrating some basic principles that we all can get behind, unity, community, creativity, art, culture, food, and it&#8217;s something that we want to amplify here at the Center for Arts and Culture,&#8221; says Johns.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the open mic night go towards the Black Scranton Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday, folks celebrated the second day of Kwanzaa in Lackawanna County at the Black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-71676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}