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The Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) is an annual film festival held in California to promote an understanding and appreciation of Africa and Africans through moving images. [1] Nigerian filmmaker Chike Nwoffiah founded the SVAFF in 2010 and has served as its director since. [ 2 ]
Museum of the African Diaspora members stand outside the museum, awaiting a tour. The Museum of the African Diaspora ( MoAD ) is a contemporary art museum in San Francisco , California . MoAD holds exhibitions and presents artists exclusively of the African diaspora , one of only a few museums of its kind in the United States.
By 1860, there were 1,176 African-Americans living in San Francisco, or 2% of the city's population, most of them middle class. [14] The San Francisco Athenaeum and Literary Society, established in 1853, which included a saloon and an 800 book library, was a gathering place for African-Americans at that time. [15] [16]
Silver Terrace is a neighborhood in the south eastern corner of San Francisco, between the Bayview and Portola neighborhoods. It is roughly bordered by Third Street to the east, Palou Avenue and Silver Avenue to the north, Williams Avenue to the south and Bayshore Boulevard and U.S. Route 101 to the west.
Marcus Books was founded in 1960 in the Fillmore District of San Francisco as one of the country's first Black bookstores and oldest African American bookstore in the United States. It closed its San Francisco location in 2014 (with plans to return), and has a second location at 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland. [9] [10]
[74] The City of San Francisco certified Tagalog as its third official language in 2014, and a 2010 Census illustrated the Filipino population to reach 36,347 Filipino in the city which 5,106 live in South of Market District. Within the SOMA Pilipinas' official borders—Market to the north, Brannan to the south, 2nd the east, and 11th to the ...
Their goal is to create a settlement of 50,000 people or more, filled with safe, high-density neighborhoods, high-paying jobs, and affordable housing.On a deeper level, they hope their new city ...
The African American Arts and Cultural District, which consists of Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco and some surrounding areas, 2018; Castro LGBTQ Cultural District, 2019; American Indian Cultural District, within the Mission District and some nearby areas, 2020; Sunset Chinese Cultural District, within the Sunset District, 2021