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At Antioch City Hall, the Pan-African flag was flown beneath different flags for the primary time within the metropolis’s historical past. Antioquia will develop its first nationwide flag coverage in 2022, and at a gathering on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, it accredited the show of the Pan-African flag till June 11 of this 12 months. This flag was established in 1921 to fight racial discrimination, and its which means is as a logo that connects individuals of African descent all over the world.
The City of Antioch will honor native pioneers Thursday on the first-ever Black History Month Closing Ceremony starting at 6:30 p.m. at Delta Bay Community Church.
The occasion will characteristic civil rights activists Willie Mims and Francis Greene, County Supervisor Federal Glover, New Generation Bridge Builders founder Sherman Wright, and the late Regigi, the primary black Antioch City Council member.・Mr. Moore praises the late Dietra King. Business chief and founding father of Hearts Realty and Dad’s BBQ.
Antioch, which was majority white till the mid-Nineteen Nineties, is now the second most racially various metropolis within the Bay Area, with 2% of its residents black. Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe, who’s black however was raised by Hispanic dad and mom, mentioned the town’s council is majority black and has the biggest focus of black Americans with superior levels within the Bay Area.
The occasion will rejoice the tradition of the Black group and those that paved the best way for Antioch’s burgeoning Black group, in keeping with a information launch from the mayor’s workplace.
Delta Bay Community Church is positioned at 1020 E. Tregallas Road. The occasion is open to the general public.
Contra Costa County Supervisor Federal Glover will probably be one in every of a number of people honored at a ceremony on Thursday, February 29, 2024, in Anitch. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
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