Do you celebrate Kwanzaa? Because I, um, don’t. Never have. Just can’t get motivated about it (it doesn’t help that I’m disgusted by the fact that its founder was convicted of assaults against women).

Now that I think about it, I actually only know one family that does celebrate it.

But for people who do participate in Kwanzaa festivities and/or want to read more about the celebration (which begins tonight), the books The Complete Kwanzaa by D. Winbush Riley and Celebrate Kwanzaa by Carolyn B. Otto — both of which I’ve flipped through in bookstores — seem to be decent.

Happy Kwanzaa — and happy reading!