Final day of Kwanzaa celebrated at McGuffey Centre

January 1, 2009 at 9:50p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — If a name can do justice to describing a person’s character, then Jonesha Floyd must be proud of her new one.

Jonesha, a 13-year-old P. Ross Berry Middle School pupil, had the African name Akilah ascribed to her during a naming ceremony that was part of tonigth’s final Kwanzaa celebration for 2008. Among other things, Akilah means intelligent.

“I was scared at first, but it was a lot of fun,” she added.

A few hundred people came to the program at the McGuffey Centre, 1649 Jacobs Road, on the city’s East Side, which marked the end of seven days’ worth of Kwanzaa observances.

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