Long Beach bookstore with Toro connection is all about social justice The image used by Page Against the Machine owner Chris Giaco inside his Long Beach bookstore is an homage to the cover of the 1999 Rage Against the Machine album, “The Battle of Los Angeles,” designed by LA Street Phantom aka Joey Krebs aka Joel […]
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CSUDH Jackson and the Raiders of the Lost Capsule
1974 time capsule used to commemorate 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet. Photo by Stephen Chamberlain By Destiny Jackson, Perspectives Editor Who knew our school had a team of explorers hidden within the confines of the fifth floor of the university library? I had almost forgotten, due to COVID-19 keeping us off of campus. Nonetheless, […]
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CSUDH Reaches Agreement to House Historic African American Collection
The CSUDH Campus News Center, the product of the university’s Communications and Public Affairs department, reported yesterday that the university has reached an agreement to house the approximately two million items in the Mayme A. Clayton Collection of African American History and Culture. Dr. Clayton, a university librarian and historian, accumulated the collection of photographs […]
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Exhibit Links Past and Present
By Andrea Mendez, Staff Reporter Don’t be fooled by the name of the latest exhibit drawn from the vast material housed in the CSUDH Gerth Archives and Special Collections. “Will the Circle be Unbroken: The Sacred Music of the African Diaspora,” is rooted in the history of the massive Black migration across America from 1940 […]
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Black History Month Part II: Sacred Music, Black Business and the Other Underground Railroad
By Taylor HelmesAssistant News Editor Black History Month is commemorated at college campuses across the country, but at CSUDH it has even more significance. Originally planned to be in Palos Verdes, former California Gov. Pat Brown opted to move the campus to its present location in order to give people in the socio-economically challenged communities […]