Tucked into Florin Square, a hub of Black and minority-owned small business, is the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum. It is the capital city's only museum dedicated to exhibiting African American History.
We talk to Shonna McDaniels, director of the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum, about the cultural institution she founded over 25 years ago, the many Black pioneers around the region, and the relationship between race and the arts.
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Jun. 3 Dana Maeshia awarded six Black community members the first ever Malcolm X Self-Determination Award at the Inaugural Malcolm X Festival, on what would have been the late activist's 96th birthday. The Sacramento honorees were said to have exuded principles of self determination and group economics, for more than a decade in Sacramento's predominantly Black neighborhoods. The festival was .
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Launched this past summer, the Black Artists Fund has already disbursed two rounds of grants, with more contributions and camaraderie planned for 2021. In this series, we introduce some of the BAF recipients. For more about the BAF grants, go here.
Shonna McDaniels
As a working artist in Sacramento for more than 30 years and the founder of Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum in South Sacramento, Shonna McDaniels says she’s finally landed her seat at the artists’ table.
In August, McDaniels completed a mural on the SMUD wall at 1423 19th St. It depicts an African-American woman with deep hues of Black skin tones confidently taking her rightful place at a table a piece she says speaks to her journey as an artist.