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Brown was a younger painter and illustrator who met Hughes in the creative orbit of Karamu House, the renowned Black theater in Cleveland where Hughes premiered several of his plays.

Their mom cooks recipes from the cookbook, Ethnic Vegetarian: Traditional and Modern Recipes from Africa, America, and the Caribbean, for the holiday’s crescendo, the Karamu feast.

The former got the audience thinking and the latter got them on their feet once more, shouting through their masks the best they could: “We’re going to party, Karamu, fiesta,” and, reflecting Richie’s legacy, “forever.”

The holidays are over — the Christmas presents opened, the menorah extinguished, the karamu feast consumed — but the unmerry part of the winter season doesn’t have to be a drag.

This family-friendly resource contains activities like coloring pages and singalongs, book recommendations and even recipes for the feast, known as Karamu Ya Imani, or Feast of Faith, that typically takes place on Dec. 31.