{"id":72301,"date":"2025-12-28T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72301\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:23:10","slug":"mother-bethel-ame-church-supports-black-businesses-to-celebrate-kwanzaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72301\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Bethel AME Church supports black businesses to celebrate Kwanzaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Celebrating Kwanzaa this week, Philadelphians gathered to share traditions of the holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Held at Mother Bethel AME Church, their vendor village gave community members an opportunity to support local black businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It is so important as people of African descent that we come together, that we stand together, that we are grounded in the principles that have held our people together for generations,&#8221; said Reverend Carolyn C. Cavaness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, check out their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/motherbethel.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Celebrating Kwanzaa this week, Philadelphians gathered to share traditions of the holiday. Held at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37779,37778,14312,22858,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-72301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-37779","tag-black-businesses","tag-church","tag-kwanzaa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72301","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=72301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}