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Dynamic and confident, Epps channeled this energy into the Pasadena Playhouse, steering the historic venue into new waters with resounding success.

Gracing the center’s main gallery in every medium imaginable, the exhibition in its entirety unveils how Black identity shifts, evolves and culminates uniquely through the lens of each artist.

HBF, a public health grassroots organization dedicated to building a thriving Black community in Berkeley, focuses on housing, health and birth equity and the promotion of healthy foods and beverages. 

Author and UC Berkeley professor of African American Studies Darieck Scott uses fantasy as an active engagement with reality in his widely appraised book Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics published in 2022. 

We are living in the moments that matter most to make change for our future generations, and it starts with us.

Lakeside, an American funk band, once said in their song, “Fantastic Voyage,” “Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage to the land of funk.”  African American Studies professor and radio host Rickey Vincent remembers this line sticking with him throughout his life. 

As part of the annual Art of the African Diaspora exhibit, North Berkeley Wealth Management in partnership with the Richmond Art Center, brings in local artists of African descent to “build a community of artists and art lovers.” 

Over the past 40 years, UC Berkeley has more than doubled its number of Black ladder faculty members. 

Black organizations and campus have made historic progress in rebuilding, representing and strengthening their community despite proposition 209.

BUSD schools affected by redlining include the two high schools, Berkeley High School and Berkeley Technology Academy. The district’s middle schools, Longfellow Arts and Technology Middle School, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School and Willard Middle School, also reveal the impact of trends in racial segregation.