A San Diego native, Charla Wilson knew she wanted to write about the history of the city’s Black community for her master’s thesis at California State University San Marcos. Sifting through documents from San Diego’s Young Women’s Christian Association, Wilson discovered the organization once had a segregated chapter in the predominantly Black community of Logan.
This year’s keynote speaker is Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and creator of the New York Times’ 1619 Project. The programs are free and open to the public.
2022 promises more Illinois tollway tempests, with pending action from outraged lawmakers, alpha dog skirmishes and reports of a toxic atmosphere in the law department.