Celebrating the California Dream:
A Look at Forgotten Stories and Other Musings
Alison Rose Jefferson
Belmar History + Art, a Santa Monica Commemorative Justice Initiative Continues Rolling Out 2020–2021
First published January 6, 2021 | Updated August 12, 2021 – In a year’s time, Belmar History +Art project’s historian Alison Rose Jefferson and artist April Banks with other contributors and Santa Monica...
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...
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...
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)...
Hello 2021 and ARJ News!
Peace Love Joy and Fulfillment Hope Inspirational Dreams and Infinite Possibilities Good Health Safety Prosperity Wishing you and yours these things in 2021 and beyond. Love the Past. Embrace...
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...
Rising Up: African American Sites of Conscience in Manhattan Beach and Santa Monica, CA
New energy has arisen to reclaim the important marginalized California ocean coastline history of African American places of enjoyment, freedom struggle and community and economic development sabotaged...