Sending Christmas cards to friends and family is a popular Christmas holiday season tradition. Christmas cards come in a wide variety of styles and designs can be religious or secularly themed. Scenes on African American Christmas cards feature ethnic representations of the Holy Family, Nativity scenes, We Three Kings, Wisemen bearing gifts, Shepherds and Angels. African American Christmas cards can be purchased individually or in a boxed set.

Hallmark has a brand called "Mohogany" which launched in 1987 that offers everyday and seasonal cards for African Americans. Along with African American Christmas cards, the line includes cards for Easter, Valentine's Day, Kwanzaa and personal occasions like birthdays and graduations.http://corporate.hallmark.com/Product/Mahogany The website BlackArtDepot.com features a variety of African American Christmas cards measuring 5" by 7". They also offer a variety of African American collectibles and Christmas decorations.http://www.blackartdepot.com/blackchristmascards.htm This Mahalo page collects links to websites offering both religious and secularly themed Christmas cards for African Americans.

African American Christmas e-cards are available online both for free or along with a subscription to an online greeting card website.

• TECards.com (True Expressions) offers African American e-greeting cards for all occasions. The cards on the site are "greetings with a spiritual focus" and offer spiritual greetings based on scripture.http://www.tecards.com/cgi-bin/ecards/postcards.cgi
• UltimateCards.com offers a variety of online African American e-cards for free. Those sending cards can add their own message, select a greeting like "Merry Christmas," "Happy Holidays," etc and change out the message background and add a personalized signature. This particular site allows senders to add a song as well.http://www.ultimateecards.com/cards/free-african-american-christmas-cards-1.html
• DGreetings.com has a section of Black Christmas Cards under their Religion Cards category, the cards are free to send and many are Flash animated with music.http://www.dgreetings.com/religion_cards/christians/christmas-african-american/
• OrnamentShop.com has a section of free e-cards for African American Christmas cards as well as a selection of African American cards for other occasions. The cards have images of their ornaments, which can be purchased and customized.http://www.ornamentshop.com/e-card.asp?cat=200