Celebrating the California Dream:
A Look at Forgotten Stories and Other Musings
Alison Rose Jefferson
Happy New Year, Event Invitations and Reflections || January 2025
WISHING YOU EMPOWERMENT AND JOY IN 2025!!! At the 2024 A Great Day in the Stoke event, an African American-owned surfing competition, pictured above are several Black surfing community pioneering...
ARJ Breaking News, Events Invitations and History Making Milestones and Fall Greetings! || September 2024
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, Event Invitation and Season’s Greetings || December 2023
S E A S O N ’S G R E E T I N G S !!! Above I (Alison Rose Jefferson) am posing with an Outward Bound Adventures, Inc. group on a July 2023 field trip at the Historic Adamson House and Malibu...
ARJ || Breaking News, Illumination of Marginalized Stories and Fall 2023 Greetings!
Time has flown by in 2023 with the work to document and share hidden, overlooked and forgotten stories of African Americans and other marginalized people. I join other like-minded folks to illuminate in...
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 || Breaking News Nov. 2022 and Season’s Greetings!
SEASON'S GREETINGS! Yes, it’s been a while since I have sent out my email musings. I have been busy doing research to document overlooked African American stories and making presentations about...
Belmar History + Art, a Santa Monica Commemorative Justice Initiative Continues Rolling Out 2020–2021
First published January 6, 2021 | Updated July 15, 2022 In a year’s time, Belmar History +Art project’s historian Alison Rose Jefferson and artist April Banks with other contributors and Santa Monica...
Hello 2022 and ARJ News!
WISHING YOU AND YOURS HAPPY EVERYTHING IN 2022 AND BEYOND Love the Past. Embrace the Future. Share the Joy. With the new year we must not forget that those who ignore history have no past and no...