Gwendolyn Grace, otherwise known as DJ Grace, launched the event in its 3rd annual celebration, filled with soul train dancing and food, a raffle, and informative Black history trivia.
Kattie Cephus, 81, a member of the Manteca Senior Center, grew up in the Civil Rights era in segregated Gulfport, Mississippi.
Cephus attended 33rd Avenue High School, where she said it was great, with Black teachers. Successful athletes and opera singers were also graduates of this school. Cephus then moved to California when she was around 18 years old, and reflected back on her journey in the segregated South.
Fast forward to today, where Cephus never wants to forget where she came from, wanting to keep her heritage alive in families, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to know what their struggle was while also celebrating where they are today.
Cephus longs for Dr. King's example of nonviolence to continue as she fears history is repeating itself, but she said "we're not going back to where we came from" and she has a dream - for her grandchildren and great grandchildren, "that they would be able to challenge and live in a better world".
"Black history is American history," Grace said. "We are together in this. We are one people."
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