by Cricket | Feb 2, 2018 | Education, Exhibitions Updates, 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...
by Cricket | Oct 23, 2017 | Civil Rights Institute, Riverside
By Ryan Hagen Photo by Stan Lim The Press-Enterprise October 23, 2017 An enthusiastic crowd kicked off public fundraising Monday, Oct. 23, for an Inland Empire civil rights institute in Riverside. Some were men, some were women. Some were white, some were black, some...
by Cricket | Oct 19, 2017 | Civil Rights Institute, Riverside
By Ryan Hagen The Press-Enterprise Riverside is a step closer to 72 new affordable housing units, new Fair Housing Council of Riverside County offices and a Civil Rights Institute. The development, on 1.47 acres in the 3900 block of Mission Inn Avenue, is set to cost...
by Cricket | Jan 1, 2016 | Martin Luther King Jr. Walk-A-Thon, Riverside
RIVERSIDE, CA – The Riverside African American Historical Society, in partnership with the Martin Luther King Visionaries Foundation, is pleased to announce the 23rd Annual 5k Walk-A-Thon celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s theme is Dr....