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State of the City Recognizes Community Impact, Innovation and Beautification
By Gazette Staff | The Raincross Gazette Photo by Isabelle Lopez January 30, 2026 Civil Rights Institute named Riverside Hero, Edge Sound Research wins innovation honor, 15 projects earn beautification awards at annual address. Riverside Hero Award The Civil Rights...
Civil Rights Institute Opens LGBTQ+ History Exhibition
By Amy Lopez | The Raincross Gazette Photo by Isabelle Lopez January 16, 2026 "Out in the I.E." traces decades of activism, community care and cultural impact across the Inland Empire. The Civil Rights Institute opened "Out in the I.E." Thursday evening, a six-month...
Inland Empire LGBTQ+ community takes the spotlight at new exhibition
By McKenna Mobley | Daily Press Photo by Daily Press January 22, 2026 The High Desert is represented in the Inland Empire exhibit, "Out in the I.E.," on display now through June at Riverside's Civil Rights Institute Inland Southern California. Read More
Civil Rights Institute Receives Riverside Hero Award from Chamber
By Gazette Staff | The Raincross Gazette Photo by Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California January 7, 2026 The honor recognizes CRIISC's work preserving local civil rights history and offering educational programming across Riverside County. The Greater...
New Exhibit Reveals Riverside as Home to America’s First Koreatown
By Community Contributor | The Raincross Gazette Photo Credit: Erik Chen July 31, 2025 'Building Our Region's Korean Communities' exhibit highlights 1905 Pachappa Camp discovery by UC Riverside researcher. On July 24, the Inland Empire Civil Rights Institute...
‘Good Trouble’: Rallies Around U.S. Honor John Lewis, Decry Trump
By Corey Williams and Christine Fernando The Associated Press July 17, 2025 Critics of President Donald Trump’s controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid and other safety nets for poor people rallied across Southern California and...
Local Korean Communities Will Be Focus of New Exhibit
By Staff Report, Press Enterprise July 17, 2025 A new exhibition, “Building Our Region’s Korean Communities,” will open in late July at the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California in Riverside. The exhibit’s grand opening event, 6-8 p.m. July 24, will...
10 Ways to Celebrate Juneteenth 2025
By Alyssah Hall | Black Voice News June 18, 2025 Alyssah Hall President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, freeing enslaved Black people. Over two years after the proclamation was announced, on June 19, 1865, a Union Army...
Midwife Aiyana Davison Hosts “Village House’s Voices of Midwifery: A Village Story”
By Alyssah Hall | Black Voice News June 17, 2025 Alyssah Hall Across the country in 2021, there were 13,409 certified nurse-midwives and certified midwives and 3,195 who were students, according to the most recent data from the U. S. Government Accountability Office....
Inland Empire nonprofit leaders advocate for community well-being
By Deanna Hendrick and Greg Bradbard IEHP Foundation April 28, 2025 On a sunny spring day in April, nearly 80 nonprofit leaders from the Inland Empire gathered on the steps of the California State Capitol as they prepared for a busy day of dialogue around improving...