by Cricket | Dec 1, 2022 | Martin Luther King Jr. Walk-A-Thon, News, Riverside
A Legacy of Strength, A Future of Action Riverside African American Historical Society, Inc. (RAAHS) Announces 28th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Walk-A-Thon Riverside, CA – December 1, 2022 – The Riverside African American Historical Society, Inc. will be hosting the...
by Cricket | Sep 19, 2022 | News
By Monserrat Solis, The Press Enterprise Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG September 13, 2022 She was the founder of the Riverside African America Historical Society and attended the segregated Irving School Susan ‘Sue’ Enid Strickland, a...
by Cricket | Aug 1, 2022 | Education, News, Riverside
By BVN Contributor August 1, 2022 The Eleanor Jean Grier Leadership Academy has extended its deadline for applications to August 12, 2022. The leadership program, which was established in 2005 through a partnership between the Riverside African American Historical...
by Cricket | Feb 1, 2022 | News, Riverside
By The City of Riverside February 1, 2022 Every February since 1976, millions of Americans celebrate the achievements and history of African Americans as part of Black History Month. The City of Riverside joins this celebration of Black History Month all year long, as...
by Cricket | Jan 27, 2022 | News, Riverside
By Dianne Anderson, Precinct Reporter News January 27, 2022 Most doors were shut tight when Dr. Lulamae Clemons and Jennifer Vaughn-Blakely first started their activism, but it never stopped the two iconic leaders from many decades of paving the way for social change....
by Cricket | Jan 21, 2022 | News, Riverside
By Breanna Reeves, BVN January 19, 2022 On Monday, January 17, 2022, Jennifer Vaughn-Blakely, a pillar of the Inland Empire community, passed away. She was 73 years old. While Vaughn-Blakely was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1964 at the age of 16, she made her...
