DAVIS — Okaidja Afroso is more than a performer. He is a cultural translator who uses music as his language of connection. A Ghanaian-born singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist now based in Portland, Oregon, Afroso has spent decades carrying the rhyth... See more
Until last year, the history of Black bookstores in the United States had not been fully told. Journalist Char Adams changed that. In November, Adams published “Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore,” the first known full-length book ... See more
State government and Silicon Valley are teaming up.
On Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a $50 million investment from tech giant Meta to support a major redevelopment project in downtown Sacramento, paving the way for Sacramento State to expand i... See more
Clayborne Carson is a historian and one of the nation’s leading scholars on the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He served as a close associate of Coretta Scott King and was appointed by her to direct the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Pr... See more
Sacramento residents returned to the streets Jan. 19 for the city’s annual celebration and remembrance of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The MLK 365 March for the Dream, Sacramento’s longest-running MLK march, began in the historically ... See more
