Each year, the McCall Neighborhood Center brings the community together to honor Kwanzaa—a week-long cultural celebration centered on unity, purpose, and collective growth. This year’s observance will take place in El Paso from Friday, December 26, 2025 through Thursday, January 1, 2026, featuring nightly gatherings (and a New Year’s Day closing celebration) led by respected community organizations.
Food will be served—bring a friend! Some days will also be streamed live.
What Kwanzaa Means
Kwanzaa is a celebration shaped through thoughtful cultural synthesis—rooted in African traditions and expressed through a modern, community-centered practice. Its deepest continental roots connect to first-fruits (harvest) celebrations across Africa, which provide a model of shared values, gratitude, and togetherness. Kwanzaa was created to reaffirm and restore cultural rootedness, and to serve as a recurring communal gathering that strengthens bonds, reinforces identity, and renews collective direction.
For more in-depth information about Kwanzaa, visit the official Kwanzaa website:
https://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/
2025–2026 El Paso Kwanzaa Schedule (Nguzo Saba)
Friday | December 26, 2025 – 7:00 PM | Day 1 – UMOJA (Unity): Strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
Presenters: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Saturday | December 27, 2025 – 7:00 PM | Day 2 – KUJICHAGULIA (Self-Determination): Define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
Presenters: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Eta Pi Omega Chapter
Sunday | December 28, 2025 – 7:00 PM | Day 3 – UJIMA (Collective Work and Responsibility): Build and maintain our community together; make each other’s problems our problems and solve them together.
Presenters: Oro Court #20
Monday | December 29, 2025 – 7:00 PM | Day 4 – UJAMAA (Cooperative Economics): Build and maintain our own businesses and profit from them together.
Presenters: NAACP El Paso Branch
Tuesday | December 30, 2025 – 7:00 PM | Day 5 – NIA (Purpose): Build and develop our community to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Presenters: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, El Paso–Las Cruces Alumni Chapter
Wednesday | December 31, 2025 – 7:00 PM | Day 6 – KUUMBA (Creativity): Do as much as we can, in the way we can, to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Presenters: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, Eta Iota Zeta Chapter
Thursday | January 1, 2026 – 12:00 PM (Noon) | Day 7 – IMANI (Faith): Believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Presenters: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Theta Delta Lambda Chapter
Watch Live + Stay Connected
Some days will be streamed live on:
FB.me/mccallcenter
YouTube.com/@TheMcCallCenter?sub_confirmation=1
Join McCall Neighborhood Center and community partners for a week of reflection, connection, and celebration—rooted in culture and built for the future.
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