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San Miguel School students commemorated the holiday season with a Kwanzaa celebration on Wednesday, December 2nd and received words of encouragement from speaker Illinois State Senator Kwame Raoul.  Also in attendance were San Miguel school board members, teachers, staff, fellow students from the Back of the Yards Campus and members of the Austin community.  The event took place at San Miguel's Gary Comer Campus, 819 North Leamington Avenue on Chicago's West Side.

Attendees were treated to lunch and words from the Senator as he focused on the seven principles of Kwanzaa for the inner-city children of the Austin neighborhood. The Senator, expressed the importance of all the principles and communicated to the audience that Kwanzaa was a cultural holiday to celebrate being of African descent.

His speech was preceded with the lighting of the Kwanzaa candles, and performances by DePaul Steppers from Kappa Alpha Psi and Sigma Gamma Rho, the Gary Comer Praise Team, San Miguel Balet Folklorico and the Andrea Kelly Dance Company. The event closed with homemade food donated by parents of San Miguel students for everyone in attendance.

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