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The 2025 theme for the NorcalMLK Foundation is Toward a More Just Union...

The NorcalMLK Foundation announces the events for the 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations.

The 2025 Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival is now offering a special 25% discounted rate on exhibition booths and spaces for a limited time only. So, sign up today for BCAF.

<p> The NorcalMLK Foundation's executive director, Aaron Grizzell, and SIDGE Center co-founder, Dr. Dwight Hopkins, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago, will be featured participants at the 2024 Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Summit. </p>

At Comic-Con 2024, the Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) hosted a compelling panel titled "Black Superheroes, Black Power Fantasies, Double Consciousness, Oh My …," featuring scholars Stanford Carpenter, John Jennings, Ajuan Mance, Yvonne Chireau, and Brittany Oliver Silas Navaro.

We are excited to announce the launch of the SIDGE Opportunities Program (SIDGE_OP), a new initiative by the SIDGE Center designed to empower Black &amp; Brown working-age populations by introducing them to the transformative field of AI.

The Black &amp; Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) successfully launched a new relationship with Rice University and Comicpalooza, Texas' largest popular culture event.

In a significant achievement for the NorcalMLK Foundation, Executive Director Aaron Grizzell and Dr. Dwight Hopkins, a distinguished co-founder of the foundation’s King &amp; Faith Series, successfully brought their expertise to an international audience.

Over 300 families gathered at San Francisco’s Aquarium by the Bay on Pier 39 for the vibrant 5th annual Sankofa Days event.

<p>Recently named one of America’s Ten Best Art Festivals by USA Today in 2024, BCAF’s new alliance with Comicpalooza marks a significant step in its mission to elevate the visibility of diverse voices in the arts.</p>

The panel, entitled "Ancient and Contemporary Black Religion in Comics," featured notable voices in the field: John Jennings, acclaimed for his graphic adaptations of Octavia Butler's works, including <i>Kindred</i> and <i>The Parable of the Sower</i>, and BCAF's own Stanford Carpenter, a scholar of comics and culture.

USA Today, a giant in the realm of news and cultural commentary, has spotlighted BCAF as one of America's for the 10 Best Art Festivals.

USA Today, a giant in the realm of news and cultural commentary, has spotlighted BCAF as a contender for the prestigious title of Best Art Festival in its 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.

NorcalMLK Foundation Executive Director Aaron Grizzell and Dr. Dwight Hopkins, a distinguished co-founder of the foundation’s King &amp; Faith Series, are set to bring their insights to the international stage.

We celebrate the life of Dexter Scott King (January 30, 1961 – January 22, 2024), the son of the late Martin Luther King, Jr.

The NorcalMLK Foundation announces the events for the 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations.

August 28, 2023, represents the sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...

See the BCAF2023 Program Schedule Here!

Together, love wins. Together, peace wins. Together, justice wins.

The 2024 theme for the NorcalMLK Foundation is Social Justice and Beloved Community...

The NorcalMLK Foundation announces the return of in-person events for the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations.

David Walker, co-founder of the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival and three-time Eisner winner, will be at BCAF2023...

BCAF hosted the <b>Ethnogothic: Horror and Conjure in Storytelling</b> panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

BCAF hosted the <b>Diversity and Comics: Multimodal Media and Comics</b> panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

We Call on the U.S. Congress to Enact meaningful federal gun-control legislation to curtail the scourge of gun violence in our nation.

There is no more important safeguard in our democracy than the protection of every American citizen’s right to vote...

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) and the Chicago History Museum launched a new program for Black History Month entitled: Comic Arts Against Erasure

The Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation's King & Faith Series is happy to be the collaborative partner with the San Francisco Tabernacle Congregations (TCDC) in their 28th Lenten Tabernacle

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black &amp; Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) joined with New York Carnegie Hall's Afrofuturism Festival in a series of programs including an encore presentation of its critically 2020 acclaimed panel entitled, <b>Afrofuturism and Black Religion: Connecting Imaginations</b>

BCAF22 went virtual for the second year, due to the rise of COVID concerns. But, BCAF's Sunday Vitual Spotlights featured the Hugo Award-winning duo of John Jennings and Damian Duffy.

Bay Area congressional leaders send an unmistakable message in support of passage of voting rights legislation during MLK2022.

The Faith Leaders of the Bay Area call on Congress to protect the voting rights of every American ...

Executive Director Aaron Grizzell Issues a Statement on answering the call to focus on securing the fundamental right to vote.

The theme for 2022 answers the call to focus on securing the most fundamental right to vote.

NorcalMLK Foundation announces the return of in-person events for the 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations...

As our nation experiences the painful fits and tests to our democratic project...

August 28, 2020, represents the fifty-seventh anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...

On Saturday, July 25, the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) presented a panel...

The NorcalMLK Foundation's Black & Brown Comix Arts Festival (BCAF) presented a panel entitled, *Afrofuturism and*...

A co-founder of the NorcalMLK Foundation's Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival has won the 2020 Will Eisner Award...

This July 4 marks the 244th year since the nation's founders declared independence from English tyranny.

On March 18, 1956, two days before he was to stand trial for his participation in the Montgomery Bus Boycott...