Juneteenth, June 19th was the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas learned they were free at the end of the Civil War in 1865 – two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the...
Photograph: USA Today Joining the national moment of racial reckoning Los Angeles County Supervisors and California State Senate Legislators have affirmatively voted with support on the first...
Freedom, Liberation, and Justice Now On the beach, on the street and in the boutique window, social justice undertakings around the nation are actively using history to engage the public in critical...
New energy has arisen to reclaim the important marginalized California ocean coastline history of African American places of enjoyment, freedom struggle and community and economic development sabotaged...
Please join me, Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson, at the Coastal Conservancy at noon on September 20 for my presentation: “Making Visible Overlooked Stories of African Americans in California Dreams.” You can...
If you missed my April 26 lecture at the Manhattan Beach Public Library on African American and women’s history at the early twentieth century Bruce’s Beach in the South Bay of Los Angeles County, here...
