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fromLos Angeles Times
8 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Close-knit Leimert Park is primed to be well-connected again

Leimert Park transformed from a segregated white planned community in 1923 to a major African-American cultural center by the 1960s despite violent white resistance to integration.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
4 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - What's Left, Never Left: Auudi Dorsey @ Jonathan Carver Moore, San Francisco

Auudi Dorsey reclaims and reframes African American relationships with water through large archival-based paintings that restore memory, highlight lost swimming knowledge, and envision aquatic belonging.
fromFuncheap
6 months ago

Discover "Black Gold": Free Storytelling + Art Day (SF)

Join us to enjoy an afternoon of art, reading, and storytelling in Black Gold: Stories Untold at Fort Point. From 1 to 5 pm: San Francisco Public Library Bookmobile Visit the SFPL Bookmobile, talk with passionate librarians, and pick up your library card just in time for back-to-school! Explore the wonderful curation of books selected by SFPL staff librarians, which illuminates the role that African American communities play in California's cultural, social, and political landscape.
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