Legislative Black Caucus Celebrates Juneteenth
Much like the story of Juneteenth, the California Black miners’ experience is largely excluded from texts and research. But one of those stories of servitude was told by the event’s keynote speaker Jonathan Burgess from the California African American Gold Rush Historical Association.
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ByAntonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media & Post News Staff CA Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber and Senator Steven Bradford (D-LA), chair of the Legislative Black Caucus.
The California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) continued last week’s celebration of Juneteenth, America’s newest federal holiday, with the group’s first in-person event since the state reopened on June 15 and since the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order took effect in March 2020.
Special Guest Elihu Harris at Assembly Candidate Janani Ramachandran s meet and greet
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Legislative Black Caucus Celebrates Juneteenth
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Daniel Alvarado’s pre-pandemic path was bright.
The first in his family to go to college, the Cathedral City native was in his sophomore year at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Majoring in English and French, he had scholarships to pay his tuition and an on-campus job writing a column for the school newspaper to help make ends meet.
His plan was to graduate in 2023. Then COVID-19 struck and the state shut down in order to curb the spread of the virus.
“At first it seemed like the worst thing that could happen was leaving (school), but little did I know that was just the beginning,” he said.