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.
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