August 11, 1965, in the city of Watts, a suburb of Los Angeles. Community members witnessed the police hurting a pregnant woman, which started 6-long days of civil unrest. It was the city's worst unrest until the Rodney King riots of 1992 The total toll of the crisis? 34 deaths, over $40 million in property damage and then more unexpected, a celebration. Yes, a celebration called Kwanzaa, directly inspired by this crisis. Didn't Winston Churchill himself advise to Never let a good crisis go to waste?  Kwanzaa is paradoxically located somewhere: between some African deepest values and strong stereotypes, between rituals, evidence and reason, between the current Black lives struggles of the past and BLM fights today and finally, because I find it quite interesting to know and celebrate.

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