The Santa Claus was Nate Mitchell, a Black man from Detroit, who was giving Nichols an opportunity to see a fantasy character that is typically portrayed as an old white man that looked just like him.

The building housing the Alano Club of Santa Barbara at 235 E. Cota St. was moved there in 1926 by an African-American congregation called the People’s Independent Church. It housed several ...

To their surprise, this Santa did not look like the ones in holiday movies or books — instead, he was a thin African American man. "This was just totally out of the realm for us. We just couldn ...

At the Dec. 10 meeting, the Santa Rosa School Board approved the African American History Initiative to seek the designation. That approval is the first step in a lengthy process that includes ...

In Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Mayor Lana Negrete proclaimed February once again as Black History Month with a theme this year of “African Americans and labor.” “Here in Santa Monica ...

However, when Hudson-Collins’ mother gifted her a slender hand-knitted Black Santa Claus in her late 20s, she became inspired. It was the beginning of her extensive collection of more than 200 ...