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The show displayed a 1936 treatment of Lucile Lloyd's "California Allegory" triptych, with Queen Califia as the central figure. Templeton said that "Califia is a part of California history, and she also reinforces the fact that when Cortes named this place California, he had 300 black people with him."
Bessie Stringfield (born Betsy Beatrice White; 1911 or 1912 – February 16, 1993), also known as the "Motorcycle Queen of Miami", was an American motorcyclist who was the first African-American woman to ride across the United States solo, and was one of the few civilian motorcycle dispatch riders for the US Army during World War II.
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.
LaWanda Page (born Alberta Richmond; October 19, 1920 [2] – September 14, 2002) [4] [5] was an American actress, comedian and dancer whose career spanned six decades. Crowned "The Queen of Comedy" or "The Black Queen of Comedy", [3] Page melded blue humor, signifyin' and observational comedy with jokes about sexuality, race relations, African-American culture and religion.
Read more:Column: California's shameful vote against Black suffrage in 1870 — and why it still matters today. ... is the powerful Muslim queen of a faraway land of bounty called California. She ...
Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. . The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as portions of Gardena, Inglewood and Torra
Members of California's Legislative Black Caucus on Wednesday will detail a package of 14 reparations bills they are introducing to right historic wrongs carried out against the Black community.
A new California law will create an emergency alert system to help find missing Black youth and women between the ages of 12 and 25. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 673 into law Oct 8.