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RAAHS Announces 27th Annual Martin Luther King Walk-A-Thon
Celebrating the Pursuit of Unity Riverside African American Historical Society, Inc. (RAAHS) Announces 27th Annual Martin Luther King Walk-A-Thon Riverside, CA – November 11, 2019 – The Riverside African American Historical Society, Inc. will be hosting the 27th...
City of Riverside Receives More Than $32 Million in State Funds for New Affordable Housing
Projects will assist low-income residents, veterans and formally homeless individuals RIVERSIDE, Calif. – June 21, 2019 – The City of Riverside has received more than $32 million in funding from the state’s “No Place Like Home” and “Affordable Housing and Sustainable...
Dell Roberts Featured on Riverside TV’s A Good Life Film Series
Legendary local youth advocate, educator, coach has spent six decades serving Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. – May 15, 2019 – Dell Roberts, an icon in the Riverside community for his six decades of service to the community, including 38 years with the Riverside Unified...
MLK Day March in Riverside Pushes for Peace and Justice
By RYAN HAGEN | rhagen@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise PUBLISHED: January 21, 2019 at 2:19 pm | UPDATED: January 21, 2019 at 2:48 pm (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Martin Luther King Jr.’s march for justice continued in Riverside Monday,...
Riverside African-American Historical Society, Inc. Announces The Martin Luther King Jr. Walk-A-Thon
Riverside, CA – November 15, 2018 – Riverside African-American Historical Society, Inc. will be hosting the 26th Annual Martin Luther King Walk-A-Thon. The walk provides an opportunity for the residents of the Greater Riverside Community to gather in celebration of...
Longtime Riverside NAACP President Woodie Rucker-Hughes dies at 70
By RYAN HAGEN | rhagen@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise Photo by Stan Lim | The Press-Enterprise PUBLISHED: July 13, 2018 at 1:52 pm | UPDATED: July 13, 2018 at 6:26 pm Waudieur “Woodie” Rucker-Hughes, a longtime activist and educator who led the Riverside branch of...
Civil Rights Institute planned for downtown Riverside gets $100,000 gift
By RYAN HAGEN | rhagen@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise March 6, 2018 The civil rights institute planned for downtown Riverside is closer to opening after receiving $100,000 from Bank of America. With the gift, presented to the Riverside City Council on Tuesday, Feb....
Footsteps to You exhibition and Black History in Riverside
FEBRUARY 2, 2018 Talking with the presenters of Footsteps to You: Chattel Slavery, the visiting exhibition currently in the UC Riverside Special Collections department, revealed some noteworthy facts about Black History and the City of Riverside. Riverside had many...
Inland area celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day with walks, parades, words
By Ryan Hagen | Press-Enterprise Photo by: Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG PUBLISHED: January 15, 2018 at 10:25 am | UPDATED: January 15, 2018 at 1:51 pm Inland residents paused on the holiday, Monday, Jan. 15, to salute the memory and legacy of Martin Luther King...
Learning from Lulamae
By Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD | The Voice Photos by the Voice December 3, 2017 Over one hundred friends and community leaders gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of Inland Southern California icon Dr. Lulamae Clemons. I revisited an article I published after I...
