Docent Emmett Harden jokes on a recent winter day about many visitors viewing Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park as a “weed patch” in the rural southern San Joaquin Valley. But step inside the ...

Neenma: “Allensworth Rising: A Fight for Water” is a labor of love, justice and storytelling. As a journalist and filmmaker, I was drawn to Allensworth because of its rich history as California’s ...

The recent 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre brought renewed attention to the way, throughout much of American history, racial violence has destroyed Black lives and livelihoods. But not all ...

Many of us living in the Central Valley have long known and experienced the effects of discrimination and divestment. Allensworth, California’s first all-Black town established in 1908, has not been ...

ALLENSWORTH (CBS SF) -- California was once the promise land for a former slave who settled a town where his dreams of freedom would become a reality. That place still exists. Its called Allensworth ...

ALLENSWORTH, Calif. — “Food grows where water flows” is a common phrase in California’s Central Valley, but it hits particularly close to home in Allensworth — the state’s first town founded, funded ...

The historic town of Allensworth saw some of the worst flooding of the recent storms. The town of 600 has responded by pooling their resources to help one another. Allensworth, California, a community ...