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Riverside’s Civil Rights Institute Receives State Funding
By Megan Jamerson | Empire KVCR News The Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California announced on Monday that it officially received the state funding needed to complete its downtown Riverside project. The funds were approved by Governor Gavin Newsom for the...
City of Riverside Receives More Than $32 Million in State Funds for New Affordable Housing
Projects will assist low-income residents, veterans and formally homeless individuals RIVERSIDE, Calif. – June 21, 2019 – The City of Riverside has received more than $32 million in funding from the state’s “No Place Like Home” and “Affordable Housing and Sustainable...
Virtual Groundbreaking: Civil Rights Institute, Fair Housing Offices, and Affordable Housing Project Underway
Civil Rights Institute, Fair Housing Offices, and Affordable Housing Project UnderwayA virtual groundbreaking is taking place on the internet for a new multi-use project that will serve several major community needs in the inland region. Attending, via...
Altura Credit Union Names Civil Rights Institute Media Center
The Board of the Altura Credit Union has underwritten the media center in the new Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California with a gift of $50,000. “We are very grateful to Altura for its support of the Civil Rights Institute,” said Tom Evans,...
Civil Rights Institute planned for downtown Riverside gets $100,000 gift
By RYAN HAGEN | rhagen@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise March 6, 2018 The civil rights institute planned for downtown Riverside is closer to opening after receiving $100,000 from Bank of America. With the gift, presented to the Riverside City Council on...
Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California Awarded $100,000
By The Voice March 4, 2018 Bank of America has awarded $100,000 to the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California (Institute). The bank’s Market President for the Inland Empire, Al Arguello, presented the grant to Q’Vinc Asberry, of the...
Bank of America Awards $100,000 Grant to the Civil Rights Institute of Southern California
Institute announces new Bank of America Diversity Center Riverside, Calif. — February 27, 2018 — The Inland Empire’s vision for a new civil rights center is one step closer to becoming reality thanks to a generous $100,000 grant from Bank of America, the Civil Rights...
Area Leaders Kick Off Civil Rights Institute Project
By Dawn Hassett Riverside Lawyer Magazine February 2018 | Volume 68 | Number 2 | Page 8 Inland officials gathered to lend their endorsements to the new Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California on October 23, 2017. Keynote speakers Senator...
Footsteps to You Exhibition and Black History in Riverside
February 2, 2018 Talking with the presenters of Footsteps to You: Chattel Slavery, the visiting exhibition currently in the UC Riverside Special Collections department, revealed some noteworthy facts about Black History and the City of Riverside. Riverside...
Learning from Lulamae
By Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD | The Voice Photos by the Voice December 3, 2017 Over one hundred friends and community leaders gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of Inland Southern California icon Dr. Lulamae Clemons. I revisited an article I published...