Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN

"Filmmakers Brandon Lien and Brandon Tran visited Yolanda Barrera’s home to film Change of Heart, a movie inspired by El Teatro Campesino and the Center’s exhibition Hope and Dignity on the Farmworker Movement. Also in this issue: a cyanotype workshop with Gemma Jiménez in late June at the Museum of Social Justice, and a look at the Emmy-winning documentary Critical Incident, which features John Carlos Frey’s investigation into the 2010 killing of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas by U.S. Border Patrol agents."
https://bradleycenterliberated.substack.com/p/change-of-heart-and-yolanda-barrera

Photographer Carolina Fuentes writes about her collaborative photographic series The Birth of the Mascogo Black People (El Nacimiento de los Negros Mascogos) in her native Coahuila, Mexico. Also, we invite you to attend the Getty Center’s May 21 panel, Backstage: An Unfurling of the JPC | Black Photography and Visual Culture, with the Bradley Center’s historian and archivist, Keith Rice. Also at the Getty, you can attend the May 20th presentation of the book Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs by the Bradley Center’s director of special projects, Dr. Karin Standford, and Mark Speltz. CSUN University Library

The Mascogo Black People in Mexico Also, how the photographers of Johnson Publishing Company influenced Black visual culture

Judy Pace June 15, 1942-March 11, 2026.
On April 9, 2014, and June 11, 2014, Tom & Ethel Bradley Center historian Keith Rice had the privilege of interviewing the talented and pioneering actress Judy Pace. We would like to send our deepest condolences to her family. CSUN University Library

Last month, we visited Bobtown, Louisiana, where Los Angeles-based photographer Roland Charles (1938-2000) grew up, surrounded by an extended family, all of them descendants of Robert Celestin and Betsy Creecy. This month, we share part of that journey. CSUN University Library

Roland Charles's Bobtown The Bradley Center visited Charles's hometown

Exhibition Gives New Life to Bradley Center Photos as It Explores ‘Voices of Water' CSUN University Library
https://newsroom.csun.edu/2026/04/02/exhibition-gives-new-life-to-bradley-center-photos-as-it-explores-voices-of-water/

“Mboso ri Apú (Voices of Water)” opens this month at the Museum of Social Justice! Madre Monte reimagines Richard Cross’s photos of Palenque de San Basilio. Don’t miss the Mar 14 reception + The Getty’s Black Arts Movement show. Honoring the late Carlos Spector. CSUN University Library

"Voices of Water" Opens in Los Angeles Art Collective hacks Richard Cross's photo archive by creating new layers of information

Register for the opening of our new exhibition, "Voices of Water," where the art collective Madre Monte re-signifies, intervenes, and transformes Richard Cross's photos of Palenque de San Basilio. Saturday, March 14, 2026.
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/voices-of-water-opening-reception CSUN University Library

Photos from CSUN Collection Help Getty Exhibition Tell Story of Black Arts Movement
Join us in celebrating Black Photography and the Black Arts Movement at the Getty Museum here in Los Angeles.
CSUN University Library
https://newsroom.csun.edu/2026/02/18/photos-from-csun-collection-help-getty-exhibition-tell-story-of-black-arts-movement/

The Bradley Center joins the world in celebrating the life of Jesse Jackson (1941-2026). You can explore some of the photographs of Jackson in Los Angeles through the photographs by guy Crowder and Harry Adams.
https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collection/Bradley/search/searchterm/Jesse%20Jackson/page/1

The Bradley Center continues to make a national impact. American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month, featuring images by John Kouns and Emmon Clarke from the Center’s Farmworker Movement Collection. We viewed the 90‑minute documentary and look forward to its national broadcast on PBS this fall. On February 26, the Getty Museum will open Photography and the Black Arts Movement 1955–1985, showcasing work by Center photographers Harry Adams, Roland Charles, Willie Middlebrook, and Calvin Hicks. After its 2025 debut in Washington, D.C., the exhibition will travel next to the Mississippi Museum of Art. CSUN University Library
https://bradleycenterliberated.substack.com/p/luis-valdez-american-pachuco

Luis Valdez: American Pachuco "Photography and the Black Arts Movement" Arrives in L.A. at The Getty