Berkeley California Juneteenth Festival

Drive-thru voter registration event! Your vote, your voice! In the current climate, voter registration and voting security are questioned. Richmond Public Lib...rary, and local young adults and teens are hosting a drive-thru National Voter Registration Day event, Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 12:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. in the parking lot facility located at 25th Street and Barrett Avenue in Richmond, CA. National Voter Registration Day serves as a day where local organizations really push to register many undecided, unregistered, or new voters regardless of political ideology and preference. Residents of Contra Costa and Alameda Counties that are U.S. citizens, and have a mailing address (no post office boxes) are targeted in this secure event. Citizens that don’t have a permanent address but have an address where mail is received are also encouraged to register. Registrations are secured by submitting them directly to the county elections office and not through the US postal service

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JERZEY GURL HOMEMADE ICE CREAM: MY JOURNEY By Diane Burr It started on a train ride down south. Years ago, when I was a little girl (between the ages of 8 and 10), my mother, my brother and I took the Silver Bullet from Newark, New Jersey to Eufaula, Alabama to spend time with our relatives. But little did I know that the long, hot trip would lead me on the road to making ice cream....Continue reading

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BERKELEY’S AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER, DOUG HARRIS ON BERKELEY JUNETEENTH As an African American native of Berkeley growing up in the 60s and 70s, we never had any type community wide celebration for the Black community until Juneteenth came along in 1986. From the beginning, I can recall going over to the Adeline corridor for Berkeley’s annual Juneteenth celebration which started off as sort of a combination block party/reunion. It seemed as though each year on F...Continue reading

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