As a young boy he’d watched herder dogs subdue huge steers by biting their upper lips. At around age 10, he decided to do the same...
There will also be a reception on October 5 for Calafia at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in the Castro in San Francisco.
Two Black performers left the event that night with Grammys in hand: Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917–1996) for Best Vocal Performance, Female, and Best Jazz Performance, Individual;...
The 18th Assembly District includes a large portion of the city of Oakland and the cities of Alameda and San Leandro. Bonta was elected in a...
It was August 16, 1857. David Drake (c. 1800– c. 1870s), an enslaved African American, had just completed a 19-inch greenware pot. On it he inscribed:...
“They’re all dead,” Erica Belfield screamed while watching the news from her living room the day after the tragedy.
African American writers and poets have for years openly challenged cultural stigmas, creating classic works of literature. Many have earned Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, NAACP and...
Lucille Alicia Sharpe was born on April 22, 1921, in Hope Hull, a community outside Montgomery.
Oakland resident Ranza Raye Devereaux will turn 105 on Aug. 18, 2021.
Pippin’s work, according to some scholars, depicted the Black experience in America “without an assumption of inferiority or attitudes of protest or satire acquired in defense...
Throughout America’s history, the majority of its political force has been white. But African Americans had often been involved in supporting roles such as advisors, legislators,...
He loved to travel, read, promote science, technology and the environment, highlighting the accomplishments of African Americans in this country and throughout the African Diaspora.
The festivities begin on Friday, August 13 at 5:00 p.m. with a ticketed mixer at CoBiz at 1503 Macdonald Ave. in Richmond. Jimmy’s daughter Sue McCracklin will...
Amenhotep suffered from severe dental problems, arthritis, and possibly obesity in his later years. After ruling Egypt for 38 years, he died in 1353 BCE.
The four-column weekly publication was printed every Friday. Stories covered foreign and domestic news, editorials, births and deaths in the local black community, weddings, advertisements, and...
According to the Texas State Historical Association, weekend rodeos featuring Black cowboys began in the late 1940s, thanks to the formation of the Negro Cowboys Rodeo...
Participants in the survey need a stable, high-speed internet connection since the interviews are all being conducted via Zoom. The researchers are also asking potential interviewees...
Regions in the southern, northern, and central part of the state (where many Black farmers reside) should be involved in the process, said Grills. The “listening...
In the July 8 contest held in Orlando, Fla., Zaila won on the word “murraya” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees. At that moment...
In 1534, Esteban and the four remaining survivors escaped. As the journey continued, he would become a scout, a diplomat and lead communicator. According to historians,...
For the second year in a row, the organization could not hold Vallejo’s Annual Juneteenth Celebration due to COVID-19. AAFRC President Gwendolyn White says launching the...
Willis, along with other Local 10 union officials, acknowledged Davis work as a professor and activist in the 1970s and 1980s and for standing up for...
Esteban was born in West Africa and sold into slavery in a Portuguese town on Morocco’s Atlantic coast.
Much like the story of Juneteenth, the California Black miners’ experience is largely excluded from texts and research. But one of those stories of servitude was...
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