THIS YEAR IN MARIN CITY, the Juneteenth celebration commemorating an end to slavery in the U.S. was kind of bittersweet. The Black population that historically defines the community is shrinking, but its activism and organization amplifies its desire for self-governance.  

The unincorporated district just north of Sausalito has around 3,000 residents, according to 2020 census figures, and about 900 are Black. Now, there are fears a public housing redevelopment will lead to more displacement.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.