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, History Making Milestones and Spring/Summer Greetings!
I continue to be busy with research documenting overlooked African American and other marginalized groups’ histories, as well as with making presentations about these findings in a few places. I have...
ARJ News – Fight the Power!
Freedom, Liberation, and Justice Now On the beach, on the street and in the boutique window, social justice undertakings around the nation are actively using history to engage the public in critical...
Santa Monica Conservancy Hosts South Los Angeles Youngsters for the 2018 International Coastal Cleanup Day and Nick Gabaldon Day Weekend Activities
This year’s global Coastal Cleanup Day of social action takes place, on Saturday, September 15 from 9.00 AM to noon. Santa Monica Conservancy educators will host youngsters participating in the Passport...
Nick Gabaldón Day Weekend Activities, June 2-3, 2018
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,...