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The publication of Our Roots Run Deep, the Black Experience in California, Vol. 1 was the lead story in the Sunday Examiner and Chronicle on Feb. 1, 1992 as reporter Greg Lewis pointed out the book's depiction of the Queen Calafia story as particularly noteworthy.
The Esplandián novel describes a fictional island named California, [8] inhabited only by black women, ruled by Queen Calafia, and east of the Indies. When Spanish explorers, under the command of Hernán Cortés, learned of an island off the coast of Western Mexico, and rumored to be ruled by Amazon women, they named it California.
Los cuatro libros de Amadís de Gaula, Zaragoza: Jorge Coci, 1508. Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (Spanish: [ˈɡaɾθi roˈðɾiɣeθ ðe monˈtalβo]; c. 1450 – 1505) was a Castilian author who arranged the modern version of the chivalric romance Amadís de Gaula, originally written in three books in the 14th century by an unknown author.
A Diego Rivera mural titled “The Allegory of California” hides in a private staircase inside the City Club of San Francisco. It depicts a woman often referred to as the Spirit of California ...
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [6] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [7] Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism [8] Henry Dumas (1934–1968) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 ...
In February, Capital Books on K in Sacramento’s downtown received a two-star review critical of the store’s children’s book section. It was Black History Month, and the store was adorned ...
Brenda Allen (aka Marie Mitchell) was an American madam based in Los Angeles, California, whose arrest in 1948 triggered a scandal that led to the attempted reform of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Allen received police protection due to her relationship with Sergeant Elmer V. Jackson of the LAPD's administrative vice squad, who ...
Queen Califia's Magical Circle is an outdoor sculpture garden in Kit Carson Park in Escondido, California, named in honor of the legendary Queen Califia of California. Opened posthumously in 2003, it is one of the last works of Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle .