Bass & Beyond

Partner Spotlight

Meet Shaylen: The Innovative Multidisciplinary Artist Transforming Collective Memory at Charlotta Bass Day

Bass & Beyond

Black Activism and Public TV

Art & Culture

Media, Power, and the Enslaved Woman: How Narratives Shaped a Nation

First Reconstruction

How Philip Alexander Bell pioneered the Black press of the West

First Reconstruction

Mary Ellen Pleasant’s influence on the Reconstruction-era Black Press

Abolition

The Pobladores’ unsung media legacy in California

Abolition

Indentured servitude on the West Coast

Charlotta Bass and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in Early 20th-Century

Charlotta Bass and the Fight for Los Angeles Beaches

Black Feminism

Charlotta Bass and the Black Women Journalists Who Shaped the West Coast

Social Justice

From Zoot Suits to Kente Cloths in Congress: Fashion, Protest, and Black Identity

Civil Rights Movement

Charlotta Bass’s Activism with Hispanic and Latinx/(e) Communities

Charlotta Bass and the Outrage of Emmett Till—A Catalyst for Civil Rights Activism