The seventh day of Kwanzaa is all about imani, faith that the New Year will be a good one. We have a big dinner for the whole family. It's a karamu, a feast. My sister, Lauren, helps me set the table. It's got beautiful patterns in black and red and green.
Mom says that it represents our family.
I always put an extra one onto the table to remember my brother, Greg, who died a few years ago. My dad got a computer program that keeps track of where all our ancestors were born and what they did. So after dinner, the whole family pulls out their photo albums and birth certificates and we tell stories. It's our way of honoring our ancestors and doing something fun together. It takes us the first two weeks of January to clean up from all the fun.