#black-history

#black-history

When the world feels chaotic-when grief, uncertainty, or heaviness settles into your body-gratitude can feel distant. Yet these are often the very moments when giving thanks becomes a steadying force. Naming what we're grateful for can't erase hardship, but it can anchor us. It reminds us what is good and what is possible, even in the hardest seasons. Gratitude, from the Latin gratus-thankful, pleasing-is a multidimensional experience.

Soskin was pivotal in the creation of the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond that opened in the year 2000, and her namesake remains on the Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante. But the Bay Area lost its famed park ranger over the weekend, as the Chronicle reports that Betty Reid Soskin died on Sunday at her home in Richmond. She was 104.

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The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture memorialized its centennial this year, a testament to the temple of Black history that houses over 11 million items throughout its storied reading rooms.

Marisha Wallace's performance as Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of Cabaret highlights the historical presence of Black individuals in Nazi Germany, an overlooked narrative.

Willa Robinson's passion for reading began in childhood, inspired by her father. She has collected Black literature since the late 1970s, seeing it as a way to fill personal loss.

To have that taken from you with no goodbyes, no relocation, no therapy, speaks to the deep loss experienced by the former residents of Russell City.

Growing up, I spent my summers devouring Children of the Sun and Great Kings and Queens of Africa. While my classmates were learning about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, I was curled up with books that introduced me to Mansa Musa, Queen Nzinga, and Kwame Nkrumah. Back then, it sometimes seemed I was just doing double the homework, but now I know my parents were planting in me imagination, belief in myself, racial pride, and truly resilient roots.

San Francisco's staycation guide recommends experiencing local highlights like the Beacon Grand hotel, House of Nanking's dumplings, and sunset cocktails at Charmaine's.

Quilts from the small community of Gee's Bend, Alabama, have gained recognition for imaginative designs using recycled materials. The summer show in Columbia County showcases the bold and expressive designs crafted by the next generation of quilting artists from Gee's Bend.

The title is definitely a connection to the 40 acres and a mule promise to formerly enslaved people, paying tribute to Black settlers from the Underground Railroad.

Urban agricultural spaces—neighborhood gardens—can reduce local temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and trees can lower the 'real feel' temperature by up to 30 degrees.

"I want visitors to have a truly multi-sensory experience," said Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD). "To take in what it means to be in this space, to hear the wind, to touch the coldness of the stone... you are actually echoing history and making a new history in this place."

This was an act of hate, but it will not define us. This mural was born from a community's pride, history, and power. We will restore it-stronger, bolder, and with even more purpose.

While we celebrated the milestone in Trinity's life and the history of Wiley, to me it was a celebration of yet another kind, a celebration of Black History.

Nate Holden’s political journey was marked by a fierce determination, rising from challenging beginnings in Georgia to become a significant political figure in Los Angeles.

Crenshaw emphasized, 'The attacks on ideas germinating from racial justice were not about the specific targets of each attack but are efforts to impose a specific narrative about the United States that marginalizes its difficult chapters.'

This is what community and commitment and dedication from groups of residents and people, who don't even live in our city, looks like,

Understanding who my ancestors were, understanding that we were people who were denied the ability to read and write, it makes this fight even more important as I move forward in it.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, was the only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II.