Around the Bay
This San Francisco museum celebrates contemporary art and Black culture, curates challenging conversations, and inspires learning through the global lens.
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
This young R&B diva is originally from Vallejo and created and curated her own R&B music festival held in Concord, CA known as Lights On Festival.
H.E.R.
In addition to advocating for racial justice and against police brutality, this political organization founded by two college students created the Free Breakfast for School Children Program to address food injustice and community health clinics to educate community members and treat diseases.
Black Panther Party
This NBA all-star has played for the Golden State Warriors since 2009, leading them to 3 NBA championships in 2015, 2017, and 2018.
Stephen Curry
The practice was used to racially segregate West Oakland and East Oakland by denying creditworthy Black loan applicants and/or refusing to insure their mortgages.
Redlining
This is the nation's oldest Black-owned bookstore, founded by the Richardson family in the 1960s. It is still operating.
Marcus Books
This Oakland native directed the movies, Black Panther and Fruitvale Station.
Ryan Coogler
This Oakland native was the first African American and person of color elected as District Attorney in San Francisco's history.
Vice President Kamala Harris
This Oakland native was a running back Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders and is famously known for the comment, "I'm just here so I won't get fined."
Marshawn Lynch
This courageous attorney was the first African American U.S. attorney in San Francisco - and the continental United States - and later the first African American federal judge in Northern California.
Cecil Francis Poole
This area of San Francisco was known as “Harlem of the West” and frequented by jazz legends in the 1940’s and 1950’s?
Fillmore District
This 2019 film starring Jimmie Falls and Jonathan Majors centers on the efforts of a young black man to reclaim his childhood home, a now-expensive Victorian house in a gentrified neighborhood of San Francisco.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
This political activist graduated from high school not knowing how to read, but taught himself literacy as an adult and later earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Huey P. Newton
This Oakland native and former pro basketball player holds the record for the most championships won by an NBA player.
Bill Russell
This 1,500 acre park in San Francisco was the home to the Buffalo Soldiers, the famous Black cavalrymen who were stationed there from 1902-1903 when it was a military post.
The Presidio
This event occurs every February in Oakland and celebrates the Black experience and community's contribution to history and culture.
Black Joy Parade
This American actor, comedian, and host is best known for his role as an ex–basketball player turned teacher on the ABC sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and as the host of renowned variety show, It's Showtime at the Apollo.
Mark Curry
Who was the first African American to serve as the mayor of San Francisco?
Willie Lewis Brown Jr.
Undeniably one the best tennis players of all time, this individual won the singles title of the Silicon Valley Classic (commonly known as the Stanford Classic) in 2011, 2012, and 2014.
Serena Williams
At 16, this legendary author became the first African American female to conduct a streetcar in San Francisco.
Purchased in 1980 as an abandoned ranch and rehabilitated into a well-regarded zinfandel producer, this business is Napa Valley's first and only black-owned winery.
Brown Estate
This Oakland native toured with Prince and the Revolution and is known as the Queen of Percussion.
Sheila E.
This individual was the first black mayor of Oakland, California, serving three terms from 1977 until 1991?
Lionel J. Wilson
This professional center fielder spent almost all of his 22-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants (1951–1952, 1954–1972) and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.
Willie Mays Jr.
(AKA "The Say Hey Kid" and "Buck")
This poet, activist, essayist, and journalist was a professor in African-American Studies, English, and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley from 1989 to 2002, where she established the “Poetry for the People program.”
June Millicent Jordan