Press-Enterprise: Project aims to preserve Black history in Inland Empire

Press-Enterprise: Project aims to preserve Black history in Inland Empire . “Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer once said, ‘Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.’ In 2007, Wilmer Amina Carter and her late husband, William Henry ‘Ratibu’ Jacocks, brought this quote to life through the Bridges that Carried Us Over project. At the core, is a commitment to honoring the history of African American people in the Inland Empire and their personal stories of struggle and triumph through video recorded interviews.” Inland Empire is an area of southern California that includes Riverside and San Bernardino. You can learn more about it at https://mapcarta.com/Inland_Empire .