WISHING YOU EMPOWERMENT AND JOY IN 2025!!! At the 2024 A Great Day in the Stoke event, an African American-owned surfing competition, pictured above are several Black surfing community pioneering...
Above I (Historian and Independent Curator Alison Rose Jefferson), pose with Yazmin Monet Watkins, poet, actress, educator, organizer, and more the day she did an inspiring poetry reading public program...
Join me in exploring the past and gaining inspiration to shape the present and future from a few activities, movies, books, and articles I highlight below. Check out more of these musings here. Also, you...
Time has flown by in 2023 with the work to document and share hidden, overlooked and forgotten stories of African Americans and other marginalized people. I join other like-minded folks to illuminate in...
First published January 6, 2021 | Updated July 15, 2022 In a year’s time, Belmar History +Art project’s historian Alison Rose Jefferson and artist April Banks with other contributors and Santa Monica...
WISHING YOU AND YOURS HAPPY EVERYTHING IN 2022 AND BEYOND Love the Past. Embrace the Future. Share the Joy. With the new year we must not forget that those who ignore history have no past and no...
