The Kwanzaa Collection: How the Grinch Stole Ujamaa

A Kwanzaa mystery that the Hardy Boys and Encyclopedia Brown could never solve.

This Kwanzaa, we’re sharing the complete collection of stories about the greatest holiday since Juneteenth. This post was originally published on Dec. 30, 2017.

Here’s a lie you often hear:

“I grew up in the hood. And because I was smart, all the cool kids and the gangstas bullied me and beat me up.”

If you talk to anyone who ever knew me, none of them wou…