11+ hour, 34+ min ago   (551+ words) Father, indeed, knows best. Tim White, coaching the season opener Friday against his son, Ty, led Francis Parker High School to an overwhelming 44-0 eight-man nonleague football win over Borrego Springs. It was 24-year-old Ty White’s coaching debut and his Rams…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (468+ words) Well over 100 descendants from some of La Jolla’s pioneering Black families recently came together to celebrate their collective histories and local ties. On Aug. 8, members and descendants of the DeBose, Shannon and Ritchey families held a reunion at the Marina…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (859+ words) Oceanside is preparing to reopen its Crown Heights Community Resource Center after an extensive rehabilitation that began in February 2025 to the historic building designed by noted architect Irving Gill. While the exterior looks much the same, only refreshed, the interior…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (249+ words) Q: “Onyx” opens on Juneteenth; was opening on this date deliberate? Q: Why “Onyx”? Why did you want to focus on a show for Black artists? I do like being close to all of these event locations. I’m really close to…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (826+ words) To create a stronger feeling of unity and community for her fellow Black students, Rancho Bernardo High junior Taylor Barkum wanted to hold an event for them that involved Poway Unified’s five traditional high schools. That dream became a reality…...

11+ mon, 1+ day ago   (595+ words) San Diegans and tourists standing on the corner of Second Avenue and Market Street may spot an inconspicuous plaque on the sidewalk commemorating the Douglas Hotel, a former establishment for Black visitors and entertainment during the first half of the…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (366+ words) The famous Harlem neighborhood of New York City, and its Black cultural and social renaissance, created the kind of influence and inspiration that stretched beyond its physical boundaries to people all over the world, including in San Diego. “Wherever African…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (484+ words) Months after celebrating his 100th birthday and being honored by the city he served for so long, San Diego’s first Black firefighter outside the Mountain View neighborhood, Alwin Benjamin Holman, has died. San Diego City Firefighters Local 145 announced the death late…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (726+ words) If it weren’t for a box Roberto Alvarez Jr.’s family kept for decades, San Diegans might know a lot less about a pivotal moment in history that transpired here nearly a century ago. Inside that box were newspaper clippings,…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (228+ words) For too many generations, Black communities have been subject to medical experimentations. The infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, which withheld treatment from Black men for 40 years, did not merely produce harmful science; it cemented generational distrust in public health that lingers…...