Category: Black History Month

Black History Month (February) was created to focus attention on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. It honors all Black people from all periods of U.S. history, from the enslaved people first brought over from Africa in the early 17th century to African Americans living in the United States today.

Poet Shanti Lair-Croom

Shanti Lair-Croom

Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) Educational Equity Coordinator and Advisor,...

Constance Moore illustrator and educator

Constance Moore

AUSD art teacher, Constance Moore, is also a children’s book...

Julie Atkinson

Julie Atkinson

Multimedia artist, Julie Atkinson created Sometimes I Have Vivid Dreams...

Derrick Bell artist

Derrick Bell

Derrick Bell’s Dent de Lion series (French for dandelion) lets...

Darius Riley

Darius Riley

Darius Riley was raised in East Palo Alto before making...

Sharon Virtue

Sharon Virtue

Painter, dancer and ceramicist, Sharon Virtue talks about a work...

Virginia Jourdan

Virginia Jourdan

Virginia Jourdan describes her Civil Rights paintings with particular emphasis...

Malik Seneferu

Malik Seneferu

Malik Seneferu is a self-taught African-American artist, from San Francisco’s...