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Op-Eds

Washington Post: California is Finally Confronting its History of Slavery. Here’s How.

Sarah Barringer Gordon and Kevin Waite June 7, 2021

Video

The Black Church in Los Angeles, a Conversation with Lorn Foster

Lorn Foster March 4, 2021

Audio

New Podcast on Black California

Cal Ag Roots February 2, 2021

Essays

Free Forever: The Contentious Hearing That Made Biddy Mason A Legend

Hadley Meares January 23, 2021

Video

Video: How the Incredible Life of Biddy Mason Can Inform Our Dialogue About Racial Justice Today

Olivia Mowry January 15, 2021

Op-Eds

San Francisco Examiner: UCSF should save this California monument to Black history

Kevin Waite October 7, 2020

Essays

Blog Post: “Which Is Something Unusual”

Som-Mai Nguyen September 5, 2020

Essays News

Daily Bulletin: Biddy Mason: 5 years a slave in San Bernardino, she became wealthy in DTLA

David Allen September 2, 2020