Zócalo Public Square and California Humanities are hosting a panel discussion on July 16 in Riverside to discuss the region's history of discrimination and violence and examine current efforts to bring justice to the Inland Empire.

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Cherina Betters, the first chief of equity and access at San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, is using her experience in education to create a more diverse and inclusive environment for students and adults alike.

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Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2024 Healthcare Equality Index for its commitment to providing inclusive, compassionate care for LGBTQ+ patients and their families.

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Juneteenth is a US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in Texas in 1865, and was made a federal holiday in 2021 to celebrate African-American freedom, culture, and empowerment, as well as to remind of the ongoing racial inequality in the US.

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Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, a descendant of a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is leading the movement to create a national monument to recognize and restitution for the destruction of Greenwood District, a thriving Black community.

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The Freedmen's Bureau issued land titles to hundreds of formerly enslaved men and women in Georgia and South Carolina in the months following Sherman's promise of "40 Acres and a Mule", but the land was ultimately taken back by the plantation owners, leaving the freedmen with nothing.

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The Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California has launched a special Pride Month pop up exhibition, "Out in the I.E.", which celebrates the contributions of the LGBTQ+ community in the Inland Empire over the past five decades.

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Black midwives Aiyana Davison and Lodz Joseph-Lemon are calling on Black women to take responsibility for their own health and advocate for their own reproductive justice by getting checked for cervical cancer and trusting their bodies.

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Assemblymember Corey Jackson has introduced two proposals to develop and strengthen the California Youth Childhood Tax Credit (YCTC) in response to the surge in child poverty, and to address the specific challenges faced by children of immigrants and other vulnerable populations in California.

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