Sacramento Area Black Caucus

06/05/2026

Are you a person with disabilities that needs to make changes to your housing rules or to your home’s physical structures to make it more accessible? Please join us at this virtual workshop to learn about your rights to do so.
Join us to learn about your right to ask for a “reasonable accommodation” or “reasonable modification” – adjustments to rules, policies, services, and even the physical layout of your home to make it more accessible for you. We will review best practices, discuss potential costs, and go over what to expect once you have made your requests.
Interpretation will be provided if requested at least 1 week before the event date.
When: Tuesday, June 9th at 1pm PT
Learn more and register at the link: https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/.../reasonable...

Are you a person with disabilities that needs to make changes to your housing rules or to your home’s physical structures to make it more accessible? Please join us at this virtual workshop to learn about your rights to do so.

Join us to learn about your right to ask for a “reasonable accommodation” or “reasonable modification” – adjustments to rules, policies, services, and even the physical layout of your home to make it more accessible for you. We will review best practices, discuss potential costs, and go over what to expect once you have made your requests.

Interpretation will be provided if requested at least 1 week before the event date.

When: Tuesday, June 9th at 1pm PT

Learn more and register at the link: https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/events/reasonable-accommodations-in-housing-workshop-june-9-2026


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06/05/2026

Launch your journalism career with The Sacramento Observer! 🎥✨
We’re seeking a creative, motivated, and agile Multimedia Journalism Intern to join our newsroom for the Summer 2026 program. This is your chance to sharpen your skills, tell impactful stories, and make a real difference in the community.
Application: https://forms.gle/QAvXuHJiZaiUX4936
The application deadline is June 11, with a preferred start date of June 22.

🚀 Launch your journalism career with The Sacramento Observer! 🎥✨

We’re seeking a creative, motivated, and agile Multimedia Journalism Intern to join our newsroom for the Summer 2026 program. This is your chance to sharpen your skills, tell impactful stories, and make a real difference in the community.

Application: https://forms.gle/QAvXuHJiZaiUX4936

The application deadline is June 11, with a preferred start date of June 22.

06/05/2026

Remembering our good friend and scholar, Dr. Alexandre Kimenyi: He was born on August 15, 1948, and joined his ancestors on Friday, June 11, 2010. Dr.Kimenyi was a professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Sacramento; a founding member and patron of the Friends of Rwanda Association (FORA), and a great mentor to many.

Dr. Kimenyi was a renowned African linguist, an accomplished scholar and prolific writer/poet (see further: www.kimenyi.com), an advocate of justice and an activist in the struggle to end the Rwandan genocide, and an educator on global understanding and the prevention of genocide and human rights violations. He was a member of the Sacramento Area Black Caucus (SABC), and the Talking Drums' Newsletter was modeled after his "Speaking Drums. RIP, and we miss you!!!

06/05/2026

Call to Action - Today! System Failure Requires System Change

06/04/2026

FREE Lunch at the Library | Sacramento Public Library - Begins June 16 - August 7 at 13 Library Locations - Children 0-18 years old

Fuel your summer with free meals for kids when school is out. Lunch at the Library starts June 16 through August 7. Meals will be served at 13 library locations Tuesday through Friday from 12 – 1 p.m.

05/28/2026

Under Sacramento's current election process, three out of every four races for City Council are decided in the Primary in the Spring, which consistently gets extremely low voter participation..
Sacramentans show up to vote in the Fall but Sac's already crowned a winner in the Spring!
This exclusionary process cuts out tens of thousands of active voters, every cycle!
We propose replacing this inequitable process. By adopting , Sacramento could allow candidates to run in the Fall, where more people are voting & diverse voices can be heard

Under Sacramento's current election process, three out of every four races for City Council are decided in the Primary in the Spring, which consistently gets extremely low voter participation..

Sacramentans show up to vote in the Fall but Sac's already crowned a winner in the Spring!

This exclusionary process cuts out tens of thousands of active voters, every cycle!

We propose replacing this inequitable process. By adopting , Sacramento could allow candidates to run in the Fall, where more people are voting & diverse voices can be heard!

05/28/2026

On in 1963, students and faculty from Tougaloo College staged a sit-in at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.
"This was the most violently attacked sit-in during the 1960s. A huge mob gathered, with open police support while the three of us sat there for three hours. I was attacked with fists, brass knuckles and the broken portions of glass sugar containers, and was burned with ci******es. FBI agents were observing inside but took no action." — Tougaloo College professor John Salter (Hunter Bear)
For three hours, the group endured insults and attacks by an increasingly violent white mob. Tougaloo student Memphis Norman was physically thrown from his seat and kicked in the head as he lay on the floor. The rest of the white mob slapped the protesters, hit them with items from the lunch counter, and even burned ci******es on their skin. Others dumped drinks on the protesters or laughed as others covered them in sugar, mustard, and ketchup. Jackson Daily News photographer Fred Blackwell took the now iconic photo of the sit-in that depicted the anger of the white mob.
Learn more about the Jackson sit-in and find recommended resources on the Civil Rights Movement and more at the link below.

Students and faculty from Tougaloo College held a sit-in at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.

05/28/2026

“Black Power”
Stokely Carmichael’s life stretched from Freedom Rides to Pan-African revolution, tracing a harder, sharper map of Black liberation than the mainstream was prepared to accept.
By the time most Americans meet Stokely Carmichael in the historical imagination, he is already mid-sentence. He is on a stage, or at a microphone, or in a grainy photograph with his chin lifted toward the future, saying the two words that would make him famous, controversial, and, in many ways, permanently misunderstood: Black Power. The phrase is often treated as if it arrived fully formed from his mouth in 1966 and then simply detonated across the country. But Carmichael’s life, and his significance, cannot be understood as a rhetorical outburst. He was an organizer, a strategist, a theorist of power, a world traveler of Black radical politics, and eventually a Pan-Africanist who came to believe the struggle for Black freedom in the United States could not be separated from anti-colonial struggle abroad.
Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/04/02/black-power/

“Black Power”
Stokely Carmichael’s life stretched from Freedom Rides to Pan-African revolution, tracing a harder, sharper map of Black liberation than the mainstream was prepared to accept.

By the time most Americans meet Stokely Carmichael in the historical imagination, he is already mid-sentence. He is on a stage, or at a microphone, or in a grainy photograph with his chin lifted toward the future, saying the two words that would make him famous, controversial, and, in many ways, permanently misunderstood: Black Power. The phrase is often treated as if it arrived fully formed from his mouth in 1966 and then simply detonated across the country. But Carmichael’s life, and his significance, cannot be understood as a rhetorical outburst. He was an organizer, a strategist, a theorist of power, a world traveler of Black radical politics, and eventually a Pan-Africanist who came to believe the struggle for Black freedom in the United States could not be separated from anti-colonial struggle abroad.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/04/02/black-power/

05/28/2026

OVERPASS BANNER DROP
🗳️ YOURVOTE MATTERS! 🗳️
SUNDAY
MADISON & I-80
11 am to 1 pm
JOINUS [email protected]
DONATE Venmo @ SacBanners

OVERPASS BANNER DROP

🗳️ YOURVOTE MATTERS! 🗳️

SUNDAY
MADISON & I-80
11 am to 1 pm

JOINUS [email protected]

DONATE Venmo @ SacBanners