2024 Folsom Juneteenth Jazz Fusion & Funk Festival

06/04/2024

Juneteenth News from the Island Empire of California, initial Juneteenth Legislation AB 1749 (Longville) sponsored by Team John Thompson back in 2002... our newest Federal Holiday quasi-optional in California opening deeper conversations. Imagine 133 Trillion Global Bond Holdings predicated upon transport, breeding, labor and debt securities... send the background research... the doors to the archives and libraries globally... California Juneteenth

https://podcasts.kcaastreaming.com/empire/20240602.html

03/28/2024

Freedom is never free... National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom and here in California, Juneteenth "optional" given the notion of "mis-educated Negroes" still...

03/28/2024

Multi-Millions of dollars to distort, disparage and destroy authentic California Gold Rush Era History.

Sacramento County Juneteenth Holiday in place as we continue a long and challenging journey.

Give thanks and praise for "the continuum of ancient ancestors speaking through a few dedicated souls here in the seat of authority of California."

Queen Mother Grace Memorial this sacred special week, 2024.

June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

03/26/2024

(1840-1875) cannot be considered by California State Parks and 1849 never existed in our California Gold Rush District along the American River Parkway...

Time has weathered the 36 concrete gravestones in a dusty, half-century-old cemetery tucked away in a corner of California's former gold fields. Time has not erased, however, the bigotry of a bygone era carved into the markers.

03/26/2024

The State of California ratified the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, December 19, 1865...

California alignment with our Juneteenth Federal Holiday on the same path... as the exception clause of the 13th still on the books... freedom is never free...

On December 18, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was formally adopted, abolishing slavery in America. The amendment had been approved by the Senate in 1864 but was stalled in the House for nearly a year before finally being ratified by the requisite three-fourths of states on Decemb...

03/21/2024

175th Anniversary Year of our California Gold Mining District, Susan Anderson blessed with to lead a multi-million dollar allocation California State tax-payer resources to share our California Pan African Pioneer story and after Juneteenth News later African American story... California African American Genealogical Society (CAAGS). https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924949/from-the-soil-unfolding-the-story-of-black-miners-bar

03/21/2024

The State of California choose a confusing political bill that is currently an "optional" California Juneteenth Holiday while spending multi-millions of dollars to "reimagine" our unique California Journey towards freedom... National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (1840-1875) soon come alive...

Friends of Lakes Folsom and Natoma (FOLFAN) and our 175th Anniversary Year of our California Gold Mining District and 50th Year Sacramento Regional Transit District maybe the Sacramento History Museum can share the authentic story of 1849 on the way to Freedom's Eve...

Mission Statement “To bring all Americans together to celebrate our common bond of freedom through the recognition, observance, education, and historic preservation of Juneteenth in America.” About the NJOF NJOF is a national foundation, including hundreds of local organizations, that have been

03/16/2024

1849 Restorative Justice Project - 175th Anniversary

03/03/2024

September 1854, plans to overlay a new town upon the existing town of Negro Bar, Sacramento County, California remains primary source documentation not allowed into adult conversations... soon the earlier 1844 Rancho Rio De Los Americanos and a plethora of additional sites available if we match the 15 million dollars of oppositional presentations...

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/im/negrobar.asp

03/03/2024

Bud break in a blessed part of our California Delta

02/28/2024

Maybe they will find the veracity of my elders, teachers and research true... 15 million, they just getting started... stay tuned...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/us/black-history-california.html

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article2599807.html

The state has invested $15 million to improve research and public education on Black history at more than two dozen California state park sites.

02/27/2024

As we close out 2024 California Black History Month, so many believe Black History started with Kunta Kinte and Chattel Slavery and is "American History" Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

As we again ask consideration for the State of California to align with our United States of America, Juneteenth Federal Holiday, Slavery in California as not optional as the auction blocks in Old Sacramento suggests... Sacramento History Museum

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

Freedom is never free... nor is preserving our authentic journey honoring esteemed Elders and Ancestors...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/09/more-than-half-of-states-now-recognize-juneteenth-as-an-official-holiday/

02/24/2024

https://ccc.ca.gov/022324-corpsmembers-recognize-black-history-month-through-service/

State of California

02/22/2024

2024 Folsom Black History Month
Black Miners Bar - CA Natural Resource Agency