California Beaches Belong to You Join in the fun and beach activities to commemorate Nick Gabaldón and the sites of historical African American beach culture experience in Southern California. Saturday,...
A Powerful National Memorial Opens Dedicated to Racial Justice, Truthful Confrontation of American History and Healing
The new National Memorial of Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration which opened in Montgomery, Alabama on Thursday, April 26, promise to be lasting and powerful...
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...
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...
ARJ Picks: Important New Books and Films on the African American Experience
I want to call your attention to vital contributions to the understanding of the African American experience in the nation and particularly the American West from the past for the present and future...





