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a Graphic Novelist Follows the Bouncing Ball at Bishop O'Dowd
Posted April 6, 2020 from The New York Times — Review by Jerry Craft — Like “American Born Chinese” — his groundbreaking 2006 Y.A. debut, and ... -
VADA PINSON – UNDERRATED AND OVERSHADOWED
By Bill Gutman “Vada never got the recognition; he never got any recognition at all. But not one time did I ever hear Vada badmouth anybody ... -
Dorothy Pete: Her Life In Her Own Words
African American Museum & Library at Oakland oral history interview with Dorothy Reid Pete discussing her family’s history in the Bay Area and her integration ... -
A Short History Of The Pullman Porters
They were overworked, underpaid and demeaned, but generations of porters on the Pullman Palace Car Company helped promote the rights and futures of African Americans. ... -
Feminism, flour bombs and the first black Miss World
From the February 9, 2020 The Guardian — It was the era of apartheid in South Africa, the civil rights movement in America and women’s ... -
A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE LIFE AND TRAGIC DEATH OF THE GREAT JAZZ TRUMPETER LEE MORGAN
Posted February 9, 2020 from The New Yorker — By Richard Brody Some of the best offerings in 2016 New York Film Festival were documentaries. The ... -
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How Damian Lillard remains loyal to the soil he was raised on
Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard has two careers, and both are defined by his hometown neighborhood of Brookfield Village in Oakland, California. In this ... -
Slim Jenkins Supper Club And Market
Posted from "A Bit Of History" website Harold “Slim” Jenkins was an African American entrepreneur and owner of the renowned Slim Jenkins Supper Club on 7th Street ... -
MASTERPLAN- CLINTON PARK, oakland, CA
Clinton Park is an Oakland neighborhood in the flatlands just east of Lake Merritt. In 1955, Clinton was home to one of the first federal ...