Photo: Los Angeles Times The true damage in a racist land grab? By Alison Rose Jefferson | Los Angeles Times, OpEd April 5, 2021 The question of how to acknowledge and repair racist crimes of the past...

Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times How should Manhattan Beach atone for its racist past? By Rosanna Xia | Los Angeles Times March 28/29, 2021 For months, Manhattan Beach has wrestled with an...

Photo: KJLH Radio  Alison Rose Jefferson interviewed about Bruce’s Beach and Santa Monica’s Belmar History + Art project "The FrontPage" with Dominique Di Prima | 102.3 FM RadioFREE KJLH March 17, 2021...

Photo: Spectrum News 1 Manhattan Beach Punts on Apology for Historic Racism, Dissolves Task Force By David Mendez | Spectrum News 1 March 17, 2021 MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — After more than five hours...

Reclaiming 50 years of lost African American history in Santa Monica by Adrienne Alpert | ABC 7 News Belmar History + Art project March 16, 2021 Read the article here.

Orange County DA Todd Spitzer Just Got Some Competition, Remembering Latasha Harlins, The Restitution of Bruce's Beach With Austin Cross | 89.3 KPCC March 16, 2021 LA County is considering returning a...

Photo: California African American Museum This Black Family ran a Thriving Resort 100 Years Ago. They Want the Land Back. By Jocey Fortin | The New York Times March 11, 2021 Last year the NYT did a short...

Photo: Dancer Cristyne Lawson as a young girl in Santa Monica in 1953, and today. (Cristyne Lawson Collection; Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times) Tour Santa Monica’s once-vibrant Black...

Photo: Va Wikimedia Commons  / CC 2.0  Manhattan Beach, Bruce's Beach and racePress Play with Mdeleine Brand  | KCRW March 4, 2021 Manhattan Beach seized Bruce’s Beach, a thriving Black enclave. Now...

Photo: NBC4 TV News LA County Looking to Return Land to the Family Descendants of Bruce’s Beach by Jonathan Gonzalez | NBC4 TV News March 1, 2021 Read the article here.

Historic Belmar Park and Belmar History + Art Virtual Opening CeremonySunday, February 28, 2021

Photo: Leroy Hamilton Justice Now: Black history’s Untold StoriesWith Martin Luther King Jr III, Kavon Ward, Robert Lee Johnson, and Alison Rose Jefferson97.7 The WaveWednesday, Feb. 24, 2020, 6 pm PST...

Photo: Shades of L.A. Collection/Los Angeles Public Library Collection “How Racism Ruined Black Santa Monica” by Hadley Meares | In Arts & Entertainment, LAIST.com December 23, 2020 Read the article...

Reclaiming Black Beaches: On Alison Rose Jefferson’s “Living the California Dream”by Eisa Nefertari Ulen | Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)LARB-logoDecember 15, 2020 Read the article here.

Historian Patty Limerick’s 10 Recent Publications in Western American History written by the Talented Young Center for the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder December 4, 2020 My book, Living...

LA Currents: Central Avenue Angels Walk
LA Cityview 35November 20, 2020The Central Avenue heritage trail was debuted as part of the 25th Central Avenue Jazz Festival, December 14-17, 2020.

Manhattan Beach confronting racist past symbolized by battle over ‘Bruce’s Beach’ by David Ono and Lisa Barley | Eyewitness News, ABC 7 November 10, 2020 Read the article here.

Photographer: unknown. | Image courtesy of the Quinn Research Center Three Major Projects Chronicle History and Displacement of African Americans in Santa Monica by Nadra Nittle | Arts &...

Photo: Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times Manhattan Beach was once home to Black beachgoers, but the city ran them out. Now it faces a reckoningby Rosanna Xia | Los Angeles TimesSunday, August 2, 2020...

Photo: Amy Ta LA freeways: The infrastructure of racism by Steve Chiokakis | KCRW Greater L.A. show Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Radio show, podcast, and article Read the article here.

Photo: Tyler Transki / Reuters Surfing confronts racist’s past after George Floyd’s Death by Dennis Romero | NBCNews.comSaturday, June 21, 2020 Read the article here.

Photo: LaVera White Collection of Arthur and Elizabeth Lewis Celebrating Juneteenth in California and the history of Bruce’s Beachby Jill Cowan and Lily Benson | The New York Times Friday, June 19, 2020...

Photo: Library of Congress Before Juneteenth was widely known, here’s how Black Angelenos celebrated emancipation by Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times Thursday, June 18, 2020 Read the article here.

Photo: Walter L. Gordon Jr. Collection of William Beverly Jr.  A Look Back at California’s Long-Lost African American Beaches and Vacation Spotsby Hadley Meares | Los Angeles MagazineMonday, May 4, 2020...