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Bring your heart home for the holidays-a time when people come together to share the warmth of friendship and a reconnection with family and traditions.

In AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOLIDAY TRADITIONS, lifestyle authority Antoinette Broussard brings together her personal style for presenting food, home decor, and entertaining with the panache and personal recollections of famous African-American women and men. More than fifty distinguished actresses, writers, public servants, entrepreneurs, educators, and artists contribute memories of family holiday traditions and some of their favorite holiday recipes. Restaurant owner and author Norma Jean Darden, former president of The Links, Inc., Patricia Russell-McCloud, actresses Vivica Fox and Irma P. Hall and songstylist Nancy Wilson relate their favorite holiday stories, and there are recipes and recollections from Alma Arrington Brown, psychologist Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant, Kwanzaa stamp designer Synthia Saint James, Joyce Dinkins, Phyllis Yvoone Stickney, and Myrlie Evers-Williams, among the many others represented here.

Here you'll find the past linked to the present, fond memories that will touch you and remind you of how far we have come and how much can be accomplished when we celebrate our lives together.

These beautifully illustrated pages cover the entire year. You'll find suggestions for bountiful Thanksgiving dinners, Kwanzaa feasts, year-end holiday parties, Ramadan banquets, Mardi-Gras bashes, Easter meals, and warm-hearted birthday parties. There are plenty of home-decorating tips to help liven up your everyday surroundings to match the occasion.