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California Buffalo Soldiers Trail, 1902-1904 legacy comes alive
2024 National Buffalo Soldiers Day celebrations are being planned along our California Buffalo Soldiers Trail from the San Francisco Presidio and Monterey Presidio to Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park marking the years 1902-1904 with the newly release book by author Brian Shellum, along the Historic California Buffalo Soldiers Trail....
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2024 2:06am PDT
24th Annual Folsom Juneteenth - Reclaiming our Golden Legacy
Captain, Dr. Gerald Higginbotham, Prime Minister of the American Slave Nation has a profound message to help align our US Federal Holiday with our quasi-optional California Holiday utilizing source documentation. The 175th Anniversary Year of Negro Hill, Mormon Island, Negro Bar and several other early Gold Rush Era Towns distorted, disparaged and destroyed for current political sport. The American Slave Nation has an alternative view and opinion to consider....
Posted: Fri, Jun 7, 2024 12:25am PDT
Disabled Communists and Anarchists: Disability Action Research Kollective
In January, we posted a Call for Submissions for a project inviting volunteers to write and submit a short, single-paragraph biography about radicals with disabilities. That project is still underway, and the creator of the call has shared the first product, Disabled Communists and Anarchists: Disability Action Research Kollective, and this note is below....
Posted: Fri, Apr 12, 2024 3:07pm PDT
2024 California Juneteenth an ongoing "Journey From Slavery to Freedom"
On July 2002, Governor Gray Davis signed Assembly Bill 1749 (AB1749) into state law, observing every third Saturday in June as Juneteenth National Freedom Day for the State of California. This bill was amended in 2003, and is now recorded in legislation under Senate Bill 812 (SB812). AB1749 was authored by Juneteenth America, Inc. and sponsored by Assemblymember John Longville (Rialto-D), the journey continues......
Posted: Sat, Apr 6, 2024 11:23am PDT
California Private Employers Can Choose Whether to Observe/Pay for Juneteenth Holiday
Juneteenth is a fixed Federal Holiday, yet in California confusion reigns supreme as California Juneteenth laws remain cloaked in mystery as California Reparations bills take center stage....
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 4:11pm PDT
California Bill Would Clamp Down on Dangerous Idle Oil, Gas Wells
Measure Ramps Up Plugging Duties for Oil Industry...
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:52pm PDT
2024 African New Year Day - 175th Anniversary of our California Gold Mining District
The Dendera Solar Calendar is the oldest Zodiac in the world. It was originally in the ceiling of a small chapel atop a temple outside the town of Dendera in Kemet. (Classical Ancient Egypt) It has been dated to 30 BCE and is now housed in the Louvre in Paris, France. The ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) Dendera Solar Calendar included a year of 365 days. California Pioneers of Pan African Ancestry showcased the possibilities (1840-1875) as the dawn of a new Golden Age has begun....
Posted: Mon, Mar 18, 2024 6:21pm PDT
Fruit Festivals - CA Black Agriculture Women's Fundraising - Political Activism
Early California Black Churches played a central role not only in the Colored Convention Movement but in Black women’s fundraising and organizing efforts in general. By holding events like the “Fruit Festival,” as well as picnics and fairs, Black women raised funds to build, buy, and sustain churches. Once such churches were established, they also served as channels through which Black women organized and participated in philanthropy and political activism involving fundraising....
Posted: Sun, Mar 10, 2024 12:40pm PDT
NPS Makes Move to Terminate Crater Lake Contract with Aramark.
Aramark received an Unsatisfactory Review for its management of concessions at Crater Lake in 2023. The Unsatisfactory Annual Overall Rating has triggered NPS to terminate the contract....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2024 11:04am PST
24th Annual, CA Rosa Parks Day - celebrating her birth and lifelong legacy of service
Auntie Rosie, born as World World I just getting started, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her profound life legacy continues to help shape the world.
As Patron Saint of the Women's Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama their long planned boycott changed global intermodal transportation systems, we call Transit Equity today....
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2024 9:36pm PST
24th Annual, California Rosa Parks Day Dinner and California State Capitol Celebration
2024 Rosa Parks Day in California and beyond, we pause to reflect upon Sister Rosa, and remember her example of “Womanity” showcasing dignified faith, work and courage, this special 2024 Black History Month we begin preparations for our 25th Annual Rosa Parks Day Celebration in her winter home of Los Angeles, California....
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2024 7:16pm PST
2024 California Black History Month - Pan African Presence in Early California History
Pan Africans migrated to California in significant numbers. By 1790, they made up nearly 20 percent of California’s population, or one out of every five residents. More importantly, the concept of “race” had far less significance in California than in the United States. While European-born Spaniards controlled California society, Afro-Latinos and mestizos did manage to gain political and economic influence during the Spanish and Mexican periods of California history. African Cuban, Danish Je...
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2023 6:53pm PST
CA Congressional Delegation: 2024 Justice For Black Farmers Act - Kwanzaa 365
Our California Grown - Pan African Global Holiday has 7 principles, 7 symbols, for 7 days. Let's consider Kwanzaa 365 in the 2024 US Farm Bill - Matunda Ya Kwanzaa, First Fruits of the Harvest....
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2023 12:25am PST
25th Year, CA State Capitol Kwanzaa, reflecting upon Ancient Kush Ethiopian Empire
Together, we continue to lift up the creator of Kwanzaa, Dr. Maulana Karenga in a good way, while providing a solid path toward sharing new global agricultural opportunities rooted in wisdom from our Ancient Kushite Ethiopian Empire shared long ago by Drusilla Dunjee Houston, showcasing #Womanity, a positive new way forward upon the Ancient Lands of Califia....
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2023 3:07pm PST
California Slavery of Pan Africans and the 1852 California Fugitive Slave Act
In 1852, California legislators passed a harsh fugitive slave law that condemned early California Pioneers of Pan African Descent to deportation and back to lifelong slavery. Historian today on the path toward "California Reparations" may examine the legal travails of three accused fugitive slaves to illuminate the social relations of slavery in Gold Rush California era (1840-1875) and the ongoing consequences of the California Fugitive Slave Law here in the Great State of California....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2023 1:49pm PDT
2023 Intenational Underground Railroad Month: 1854 Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar
Discover the 1854 Gold Mining District of Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar as we featured this 2023 International Underground Railroad Month...
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2023 10:16am PDT
California State Juneteenth Holiday - Governor Newsom 2023 Juneteenth Proclamation
Governor Newsom has a statutory requirement the third Saturday in June. Our optional Juneteenth State Holiday, should be amended to align with our Juneteenth Federal Holiday. Our unique California Journey From Slavery to Freedom = California Underground Railroad to Freedom, remains an open secret as we prepare for our 175th Anniversary of Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar, California - Freedom is never free......
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2023 6:23pm PDT
2023 Historic Folsom Juneteenth - Underground Railroad Network to Freedom - 1854
Folsom Juneteenth vs. a "need" for a California State Parks to fabricate a story of early California Pioneers of Pan African Descent (1840-1875) presupposes that earlier source documents from the "Gold Book" all destroyed. An agreed upon fabricated notion of Black Miners Bar with a 2022 Juneteenth USA team soon will be challenged by International, National, Regional and Local stakeholders. Freedom is never free...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2023 6:19pm PDT
Leidesdorff Plaza, showcasing California Pioneers of African Descent Historic Folsom
May 1966, Leidesdorff Plaza was dedicated by the Sacramento Negro Museum and Library Association, Inc.
May 2023 we are excited to continue the journey towards researching, documenting, preserving and showcasing the salient contributions by people of African Descent in early California History, (1840-1875) for distant future generations....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2023 9:22am PDT
Reclaiming our Past CA Pioneers of African Descent - 23rd Anniversary of Folsom Juneteenth
In 2000, Joe Louis Moore's Juneteenth events were chosen by the National Park Service to be included in their National Underground Railroad Project, one of only two projects in California to be selected for that honor. Soon come the rest of the story......
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2023 6:46pm PDT