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Ethan Gregory Dodge on March 2, 2022
Rays of South Bay winter sunshine illuminated Backesto Park this past weekend as activists and members of the community gathered to celebrate the last weekend of Black History Month. With singing, dancing, food and art, the event was a clear demonstration of what Kiana Simmons calls “Black joy.”
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Erika Rasmussen on June 12, 2019
This Northside San Jose neighborhood has welcomed global residents for decades—it was predominantly Italian before Black, Filipino, Mexican and Vietnamese families settled in. “It is like a little United States,” the Mercury News wrote in 1966. This summer, the area continues its community-building efforts by inviting locals to Backesto Park for an…
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