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...
ARJ News June 2021! – Black Lives Matter
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Intangible Heritage
Join the 2021 Juneteenth Celebrations at Belmar History + Art Site and Bruce’s Beach
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...
ARJ and Belmar History + Art Team Win Award
As the project historian, Alison Rose Jefferson joins her team members in being honored with the 2021 Cultural Resource Award from the Santa Monica Conservancy for the work done to produce the Belmar...
Update: Bruce’s Beach Reparations Campaign
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...
Belmar History + Art, a Santa Monica Commemorative Justice Initiative Continues Rolling Out 2020–2021
First published January 6, 2021 | Updated March 15, 2021 – In a year’s time, the Belmar History +Art project’s historian Alison Rose Jefferson and artist April Banks with other contributors and Santa...
Making Change in Community Heritage Preservation in Southern California
Promised Land, Hallowed Ground: Commemorative Justice and Making Change in Community Heritage Preservation in Southern California, Pt 1 — Symposium Join the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles (ISLA)...
