More than 300 people gathered in the Jazz Cafe in Ontario Sunday evening to celebrate the black holiday Kwanzaa with children's crafts, traditional music and dancing and a solemn candle-lighting ceremony.

The festival, "Celebrating a culture and sharing a vision," is the 41st annual Kwanzaa commemoration and the first to be jointly sponsored by three Southern California organizations: the San Gabriel Valley National Council of Negro Women, the Riverside Alumni Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and the Inland Area Kwanzaa Group.

"Kwanzaa is basically a cultural celebration that brings family and   more »