Sacramento County Local News: History


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03/26/2024
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Mira Loma High School Spreads Awareness of Black History Month

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02/26/2024
“An apology is just cotton candy rhetoric,” said the Rev. Amos C. Brown, a member of the San Francisco reparations advisory committee. “What we need is concrete actions.”

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02/20/2024
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Shigeru Ochi has seen a thing or two in his lifetime. The Folsom resident turns 100, and the community is ready to honor him.

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02/16/2024
Members of the board gathered to put forward a resolution that takes responsibility for the history of discrimination against Black San Franciscans.

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02/12/2024
While lectures on Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are important, some educators are eager to learn more about underrepresented trailblazers like Lewis Latimer and Marsha P. Johnson.

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02/08/2024
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For more than three decades, local resident Terry Gold has operated and maintained the small-scale Folsom Valley Railroad, an iconic part of Folsom’s Lions Park.

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02/08/2024
For Jonathan Peter Jackson, revolutionary thought and family history have always been intertwined, particularly in August. That’s the month in 1971 when his uncle, the famed Black Panther George Jackson, was killed during an uprising at San Quentin State Prison in California.

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02/07/2024
The Crocker Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Black Artists in America, from Civil Rights to the Bicentennial,” showcases over 60 works from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, offering an artistic glimpse into a compelling era.

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02/05/2024
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The evergreen questions raised by the label “conservative” are: Conserving what and from whom?

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02/05/2024
She toured the world wowing audiences, and she captured the public’s imagination for decades. No, not Taylor Swift; Ellen Beach Yaw, also known as Lark Ellen.

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02/01/2024
James Dean’s last stop before he died in a car crash was at Blackwell’s Corner, a gas station in rural Kern County. His memory isn’t the draw it once was.

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02/01/2024
An extinct species of walrus was unearthed in Santa Cruz County, evoking a time when California was teeming with odd creatures that feel closer to fantasy than reality, researchers said.

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02/01/2024
The Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe has a time-limited opportunity to purchase 232 acres on a Nisenan Village site called Yulića—the tribe’s best opportunity to re-establish a homeland in more than half a century.

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02/01/2024
NBA stars Matt Barnes and James Donaldson, baseball players Leon Lee and Nick Johnson, and Team USA paracyclist Jamie Whitmore will be inducted on Feb. 4 at Thunder Valley Casino.

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01/31/2024
The California Legislative Black Caucus released a list of 14 bills as a first set of reparations for the descendants of African Americans who were enslaved.

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01/31/2024
Lawmakers introduced a package of bills designed to tackle some forms of reparations. The measures may face budget constraints and opposition.

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01/26/2024
Lauren Hammond, the first Black woman elected to the Sacramento City Council, died in her sleep Jan. 18 at the age of 68. Representing District 5, Hammond served from 1997 to 2010.

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01/24/2024
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Over the last two months, the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad faced uncertainty in with the looming renewal of its operating license.

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01/24/2024
Applicants now have the option to check boxes under Black or African American that declare whether or not they are a descendent of persons who were enslaved in the United States.

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01/22/2024
While the fate of reparations for African Americans in California awaits decisions from the governor and other lawmakers, the state already is setting the stage for progress with new disaggregated data collection.
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