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...
ARJ Breaking News, Event Invitations and Celebration of Accomplishments || May 2024
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...
ARJ || Breaking News, Illumination of Marginalized Stories and Fall 2023 Greetings!
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...
Belmar History + Art, a Santa Monica Commemorative Justice Initiative Continues Rolling Out 2020–2021
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...
Hello 2022 and ARJ News!
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...
ARJ News June 2021! – Black Lives Matter
Freedom, Liberation, and Justice Now! The sentiments expressed by these words in the sub-title have galvanized the reinvigorated demands from Black America and their allies in a present day moral...