A People’s History of the IE is a community archive & mapping project documenting historic communities of color, working people, and LGBTQ+ individuals in Riverside and San Bernardino. The Space is grateful for their continued work and partnered with them to produce this special issue. Visit their Storymap: Claiming Our Space documenting East Riverside and The Bridges that Carried Us Over chronicling San Bernardino.*

“Bridges” documents Black history in the I.E. It was founded by Wilmer Amina Carter and Ratibu Jacocks, in 2007, revitalized in 2020, and continues to capture the stories and experiences of the Inland Empire’s Black community through oral history interviews, photographs, and the identification and preservation of historical collections that reside in the community.

IG: @ieblackhistory

Founded in 2015 by Renata Cherlise, Black Archives is a multimedia platform that brings a spotlight to the Black experience. Through an evolving visual exploration, Black Archives provides a dynamic accessibility to a Black past, present, and future. Going beyond the norm, its lens examines the nuance of Black life: alive and ever-vibrant to both the everyday and iconic — providing insight . Black Archives gives inspiration to those seeking to understand the legacies that preceded their own.

Eclipse Creative Space is a Black-owned all-in-one photographic studio space where you can shoot, process & print your work! Located in San Bernardino, they offer an affordable portrait station, exclusive merchandise, & a community darkroom!

Adress:
468 5th St | Suite 211
San Bernardino, CA 92401

TruEvolution fights for health equity and racial justice to advance the quality of life and human dignity of LGBTQ+ people

TruEvolution fights for health equity and racial justice to advance the quality of life and human dignity of LGBTQ people, and provides a range of health programs including HIV testing, mental health, housing programs and youth programming.

Starting out as an organization to raise funds for the first Transgender Day of Remembrance THWC has become the largest transgender organization in the Inland Empire, serving the needs of the local TGI community.

The mission of Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance is to provide a safe, healthy, and enriching environment for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersex (LGBTQI) youth of the Inland Empire through adovcacy, education and wellness wervices. We are dedicated to facilitating activities and programs that enrich the lives of LGBTQ+ folks and promote creativity, health, and wellness for the positive mental health of our queer youth.

Home of the Queer Bodies Art Expo, Birdcage Comics Cafe is an LGBTQ+ friendly small grassroots eatery located in San Bernardino in partnership with Birdcage Bottom Books to bring small press comics to the IE!

The Shut Down Adelanto Coalition is a collective of over twenty organizations who have been working together since 2019 with the goal of achieving the just closure of the Adelanto ICE Jail. All organizations organize within the scope of immigrant justice but through different lenses, whether that is environmental, worker rights, or policy.

ICIJ is composed of over 35 organizations that serve the immigrant community in the Inland Empire. The IC4IJ coalition engages in policy advocacy, community organizing, and education, and rapid response to ICE and border patrol operations. We are collectively changing the narrative of the one million immigrants who live, thrive, and are a foundational part of the fabric of the IE.

CIYJA creates a space for intersectional, system-impacted undocumented and refugee immigrant youth across California with an emphasis on underserved QTBIPOC communities.

WWRC organizes groups of workers standing for living wages, safe workplaces, secure employment, and strong communities. In solidarity with unions, in partnership with the immigrant rights movement, aligned with efforts for criminal justice and the principles of environmental justice, we bring workers together to develop new and effective strategies for organizing in the strategic nodes of the supply chain.

Local photographer and writer Sadie Scott was interested in documenting the shift in the Inland Empire from a primarily agricultural industry, where food was abundant, to one where land is mostly coveted as a space to build logistics warehouses, and how that shift in land use has impacted peoples access to healthy food. She interviewed community activists who are trying to innovate new ways of connecting residents most in need to fresh food resources, and captured their images and stories as part of a photo exhibit and a series of community posters placed around the Inland Empire.

Tequesquite Community Garden’s purpose is to promote locally grown food, better nutrition, sharing, recreation, fellowship, volunteerism, and community spirit.The garden is a gathering place for people of all ages to make friends, learn about gardening methods, nature, the environment, efficient use of water and other sustainable practices.

The Garcia Center for the Arts is a project supported by the San Bernardino Valley Concert Association, a 501-c-3 non-profit organization. The Center sponsors art events and organizations in the community, hosts creative classes, a community garden and has multi-use spaces available for rent. El Centro García para las Artes es un proyecto apoyado por la Asociación de Conciertos del Valle de San Bernardino, una organización sin fines de lucro 501-c-3. El Centro patrocina eventos de arte y organizaciones en la comunidad, organiza clases creativas, un jardín comunitario y tiene espacios de usos múltiples disponibles para alquilar.

The Chia Cafe Collective is an indigenous group working in Southern California to revive Native food practices and raise awareness about the precarity of these important cultural resources.

The Frontline Observer is an independent news organization that prioritizes capturing the voices of ‘frontline’ environmental justice communities in the Inland Empire.

The People’s Collective for Environmental Justice is a coalition that is challenging the cultural and systemic roots of white supremacy by organizing in the Inland Empire to fight for clean air and water through community education and advocacy.

Please join our fight against the county rezoning our equestrian neighborhood into industrial warehouses.The Bloomington Warehouse Specific Plan is a proposed development with a 2.7 million-square-foot warehouse and office space. Over 200 residents will be displaced and many more will be affected by the air pollution this project will cause.

The Tapestry Project is a community-based digital resource to document and archive the 15,000 + home Tapestry development project in Hesperia California, along with its social, economic, and biological effect on local residents, and its impact on the nearby Mojave River Basin and surrounding environment.