Christmas is traditionally honored by attending church services, exchanging gifts, sharing festive meals, and singing carols. Its intended replacement Kwanzaa is more appropriately celebrated with bar crawls. Presenting Brooklyn’s Kwanzaa Crawl:

This crawl embodies all 7 principles of Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa Crawl is about bringing people in the community together, or Umoja (Unity).

A team of Black creatives used the resources available to them in order to make an event of this scale happen. That’s both Kujichagulia (self determination) and Ujima (collective work and responsibility).

Kwanzaa Crawl creates an opportunity for Black people to harness their buying power, and that’s Ujamaa (cooperative economics).

Et cetera, et cetera.

The first kinara (Kwanzaa candleholder) was created when convicted torturer and Kwanzaa founder Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (a.k.a. Ronald McKinley Everett) broke two branches off a menorah. The tradition of cultural appropriation continues with this nod to Saint Patrick’s Day.

Participating bars will be closed to the public — i.e., to Caucasians. But the pigmentally incorrect are encouraged to show their support by patronizing these establishments at other times — or by making cash donations.

Good thing there aren’t whites only bar crawls. That would be racist.

So, what is Kwanzaa Crawl, and how does it actually work? We hear your questions and we’ve got answers!

Hear straight from our Co-Founders, Kerry & Krystal, about how the largest bar crawl celebrating Black-owned bars and restaurants takes over Brooklyn every year! pic.twitter.com/d6UCuozrif

— Kwanzaa Crawl (@kwanzaacrawl) November 26, 2025

On a tip from Mike B.

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