Families kick off Kwanzaa with children's museum celebration

Margaret Galloway, a docent at the Bronzeville Children’s Museum, asks children what they would do to improve their community during a Kwanzaa learning event Monday, the first of the seven-day celebration of African American culture. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

A few dozen kids and their parents gathered at a children's museum Monday afternoon in Calumet Heights on the South Side to commemorate and learn about the first day of Kwanzaa.

The secular seven-day holiday celebrating African American culture features seven guiding principles, and it kicked off with its first: unity, or Umoja.