History
For more than a decade, one man has been the de facto elected representative of the nearly 3,000 residents of unincorporated North Richmond.
We wanted to know how people celebrated the 4th of July, so we asked around on 23rd Street and MacDonald.
Nicholl Park was blessed in prayer and dance Saturday afternoon as Native American Indians respresenting over 50 tribes from as far away as South Dakota, New Mexico, Long Beach, Calif., and Sacramento travelled to Richmond to participate in its 2nd Annual Native American Pow-Wow.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the growth of public housing projects swept across urban America. North Richmond was no exception.
On Saturday, Richmond will kick off its annual Juneteenth festival with a parade, two stages of music, activities for kids and a host of food vendors in Nicholl Park.
The music scene that emerged in North Richmond featured a strong, bluesy, country twang that represented not only the influx of southerners to the area during World War II, but also other unique geographical and cultural heritages.
The North Richmond of today emerges from a history marked by bad reputation, bad luck and, often, bad intentions.
It’s a blend of hope and heartbreak, of promise and peril.
While most people were taking advantage of an extra day off yesterday by sleeping in or getting an early start prepping food for a Memorial Day barbeque, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts from across western Contra Costa County were heading to the Rolling Hills Memorial Park and Funeral Home on Hilltop Road. Dressed in official uniforms, they set to work at 8 o’clock sharp placing thousands of flags on gravesites belonging to veterans of American armed services.