Love the Past | Embrace the Future | Share the Joy May the year to come be filled with hope, love, community, peace, and infinite possibilities. During this season many of us find ourselves evaluating...
SM’s Bay St. Beach/Inkwell Monument, Int’l Coastal Cleanup Day 2017 Location
On Saturday, September 16 from 9am to noon, this year’s international Coastal Cleanup Day takes place, with Santa Monica’s Bay Street beach/Inkwell monument as a site of this global movement comprised of...
SM Conservancy’s Youth Program Makes a Big Splash with So. Los Angeles Youngsters at Nick Gabaldón Day 2017 Celebration and Other Field Trips
Youngsters from South Los Angeles hosted by the Santa Monica Conservancy’s Passport to Success LA2017: Life at the Beach Series pilot youth program jubilantly waded in the water, had some fun and learned...
Sites of Black Heritage in Los Angeles Auto Tour Creates New Cultural Connections for Participants
At the end of February 2017, Toyota Motor Corporation invited me to create an afternoon guided driving tour of sites to showcase facets of Los Angeles’ Afro-Spanish/-Mexican and African American heritage...
Featured 2017 Cameron Preservation Award winner: Alison Rose Jefferson, Ph.D.
Jefferson received the prestigious and rare David G. Cameron Award for her many significant contributions to our understanding of African-American history in Santa Monica. For over a decade, Jefferson...
¡It’s 2017. The Year of the Fire Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac is upon us, as is the yearly recognition of Black History and Women’s History!
In this photograph, I, Alison Rose Jefferson, sit in the iconic fan chair, some identify as a symbol of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s–1970s, at the “All Power to the People: Black Panthers...





