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- Surf, Sand, and Self-Determination: Jim Crow-Era Leisure for Black Angelenos
- Manhattan Beach: Swimming Together
- History made: Bruce’s Beach has been returned to descendants of Black Family
- Los Angeles County Returns Beach Property Seized from Black Owners during Jim Crow Era in 1924
- Juneteenth will pass with no formal celebration at iconic Bruce’s Beach Park. This is why
- Ep. 15 How Have African Americans Historically Shaped and Experienced L.A.? Feat. Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson
- El Camino’s land has ties to historic Black-owned property
- Nahshon Dion’s TransBrations: Featuring Historian and Author Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson
- #2 – Bruce’s Beach: Why Can’t A Sister Just Chill
- Alondra Park, El Camino College replaced a planned luxury Black neighborhood called ‘Gordon Manor’
- S2:E8 Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson | Spatial Justice
- How Bruce’s Beach became a beacon in the fight against racist policies
- Santa Monica’s message to people evicted long ago for the 10 Freeway. Come Home.
- How Bruce’s Beach Was Stolen From The Black Family That Owned It — And How They Got It Back
- Black entrepreneurs built beach havens in California. Racism shut them down.
- KFI News Presents: This Sand Is My Sand, The Stolen Legacy of Bruce’s Beach
- Freedom Now with Gerald Horne: Interview with Historian Alison Rose Jefferson about Bruce’s Beach
- Fragments of Reparation & Recognition in the Golden State
- Return of beachfront property to Black family rights a ‘horrible injustice’
- Bill signed to return historic California beach to Black family
- Podcast: Bruce’s Beach
- Nbn Podcast, People and Places: Living the California Dream….by Alison Rose Jefferson
- Exhibit at Santa Monica park sheds light on Black history
- KCET Leads In Wins At Los Angeles Area Emmys For Fifth Year In A Row
- États-Unis: une famille afro-américaine retrouve sa propriété spoliée dans les années 1920
- Bruce’s Beach, symbole de la lutte pour la réparation des spoliations subies par les Noirs en Californie
- Santa Monica Conservancy Hosts Annual Preservation Awards
- Podcast: The fight for a beach once owned by a Black family
- Cities grow more diverse but segregated
- What’s in a street name? How proposals to rename Crenshaw Boulevard divide the community.
- Santa Monica Honors Black Residents and Black History at Belmar History + Art Project
- Bruce’s Beach Series From Plan B, Viola Davis & Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions In Works At Amazon
- Bruce’s Beach: A Black family’s fight to reclaim land grabbed in 1920s
- Reclaiming Bruce’s Beach
- Manhattan Beach Took Beachfront Land from a Black Family. L.A. County Has Voted to Give it Back
- Manhattan Beach May show the Way on Reparations
- Once Upon A Beach In California
- How one beach city’s racial reckoning is putting California’s racist history front and center
- California Beach Seized in 1924 From a Black Family Could Be Returned
- A beach town seized a Black couple’s land in the 1920s. Now their family could get it back
- $75M Beachfront Property Taken From Black Owners in 1927 Set to Be Returned to Descendants
- Bruce’s Beach: (Finally) doing the right thing
- Segregation: les Afro-Americains demandent des reparations || Segregation: African Americans Demand Reparations
- USA: Afroamerikaner fordern Reparationszahlungen || USA: African Americans are demanding reparations payments
- Historian Alison Rose Jefferson on the generations-long fight for belonging at one Southern California beach
- The true damage in a racist land grab
- How should Manhattan Beach atone for its racist past?
- Secretary Deb Haaland is sure to enrage everyone. She should embrace it.
- Alison Rose Jefferson interviewed about Bruce’s Beach and Santa Monica’s Belmar History + Art project
- Manhattan Beach Punts on Apology for Historic Racism, Dissolves Task Force
- Reclaiming 50 years of lost African American history in Santa Monica
- Orange County DA Todd Spitzer Just got some Competition, Remembering Latasha Harlins, The Restitution of Bruce’s Beach
- This Black Family Ran a Thriving Resort 100 Years Ago. They Want the Land Back.
- Tour Santa Monica’s once-vibrant Black neighborhoods, nearly erased by racism and ‘progress’
- Manhattan Beach, Bruce’s Beach and race
- LA County Looking to Return Land to the Family Descendants of Bruce’s Beach
- Historic Belmar Park and Belmar History + Art Virtual Opening Ceremony
- Justice Now: Black history’s Untold Stories With Martin Luther King Jr III, Kavon Ward, Robert Lee Johnson, and Alison Rose Jefferson
- “How Racism Ruined Black Santa Monica”
- Reclaiming Black Beaches: On Alison Rose Jefferson’s “Living the California Dream”
- Historian Patty Limerick’s 10 Recent Publications in Western American History written by the Talented Young
- LA Currents: Central Avenue Angels Walk
- Manhattan Beach confronting racist past symbolized by battle over ‘Bruce’s Beach’
- Three Major Projects Chronicle History and Displacement of African Americans in Santa Monica
- Manhattan Beach was once home to Black beachgoers, but the city ran them out. Now it faces a reckoning
- LA freeways: The infrastructure of racism
- Surfing confronts racist’s past after George Floyd’s Death
- Celebrating Juneteenth in California and the history of Bruce’s Beach
- Before Juneteenth was widely known, here’s how Black Angelenos celebrated emancipation
- A Look Back at California’s Long-Lost African American Beaches and Vacation Spots
- African Americans persevered to Develop Communities During the Jim Crow Era
- Book it L.A., For the brainy and the bold
- Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars
- Storied Los Angeles Club for African American Women Looks to the Future
- Black History Month: Did You Know Val Verde, the Black Palm Springs?
- The Legendary Black Surfer Who Challenged Stereotypes
- Activism as a Marketing Tool for Engagement with History and in Capitalism
- News
- Art & Culture
- Belmar History + Art, a Santa Monica Commemorative Justice Initiative Continues Rolling Out 2020–2021
- Hello 2022 and ARJ News!
- ARJ and Belmar History + Art Team Win Award
- Making Change in Community Heritage Preservation in Southern California
- Hello 2021 and ARJ News!
- Another Step Forward for the Belmar History + Art Civic Commemoration Project
- ARJ || New Year’s Greetings 2019 and Social Justice News
- Sept. 2018 News: LPV Book Fair…KCET Series…Waves & Curls Beach Fest
- L.A. Designer’s Anti-Racism T-Shirt Message Demands Social Justice
- Mark Your Calendar to Attend Central Avenue’s 2018 Jazz Festival and Dedication of the Angels Walk LA Heritage Trail
- A Powerful National Memorial Opens Dedicated to Racial Justice, Truthful Confrontation of American History and Healing
- Pacific Standard Time Celebrates Regional Culture Once Again
- Sites of Black Heritage in Los Angeles Auto Tour Creates New Cultural Connections for Participants
- A Cultural Moment: Artist Zeal Harris Joins Political Activism with El Día de Los Muertos Celebration and the Legacy of Jose Guadalupe Posada
- ARJ Picks: Important New Books and Films on the African American Experience
- #MakingHistory with the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Roger Guenveur Smith and Richard Montoya Make L.A. History Come Alive With A New Play
- William Henry Ellis aka Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, Karl Jacoby’s Book and Upcoming Lecture
- SI’s New African American Museum Opens
- Greetings from Los Angeles, California and Cheers for the New Year!
- Travel, Adventure, Learning, Exploration and Renewed Inspiration
- Accomplishments and New Life Opportunities
- Sonya Clark’s Material Reflex Exhibition Debuts at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, May 26–September, 8, 2013
- BlackPast.org
- Bruce's Beach
- ARJ || Breaking News Nov. 2022 and Seasons Greetings!
- ARJ News June 2021! – Black Lives Matter
- Join the 2021 Juneteenth Celebrations at Belmar History + Art Site and Bruce’s Beach
- Update: Bruce’s Beach Reparations Campaign
- ARJ News – Fight the Power!
- Rising Up: African American Sites of Conscience in Manhattan Beach and Santa Monica, CA
- ARJ, Coastal Conservancy Noon Time Talk | Thurs., Sept. 20, 2018
- African American Leisure, Southern California Tales and Bruce’s Beach
- Save the Date, ARJ Lecture on African American and Women’s History in Manhattan Beach
- African Americans, Women and Beach Culture in the News!
- Events
- ARJ selected for a 2020 LACHS Award and the LA Times Festival of Books; Other News
- LA Times and the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Give Shout Outs to Living the California Dream… book, More Event Dates and Exciting News
- Santa Monica Conservancy Hosts South Los Angeles Youngsters for the 2018 International Coastal Cleanup Day and Nick Gabaldon Day Weekend Activities
- Facilitating Knowledge and Community Pride Through Cutting Edge Programming at SAMO High
- Great Breakfast, Thoughtful Dialog, Fun and Engagement with the Members of The L.A. Breakfast Club
- See you at the Int’l Coastal Cleanup Day 2015 at the Bay Street/Inkwell Monument in Santa Monica
- Innovative Programming and Partnerships to Engage Learning, New Experiences, and a Broader Vision of History and Cultural Inclusiveness
- Alison Rose Jefferson, Keynote Speaker, Santa Monica Conservancy Annual Meeting and Awards on Feb. 8, 2015
- Save the Date: Coastal Cleanup Day 2014
- SAVE THE DATE: Leader in Historic Preservation Thought and Activism, Dr. Ned Kaufman Will Speak in Southern California, March 11 and 13, 2014
- “12 Miles North: The Nick Gabaldón Story” Documentary Screening Kicks Off Pilgrim School’s Black History Month Programs
- Black Surfers Made the Claremont Colleges New Student Retreat 2013-14 A Standout Success!
- Volunteers Took Action and Gained Knowledge on Coastal Cleanup Day 2013 at Santa Monica’s Historical African American, Jim Crow Era Beach Site
- Ocean Lover Nick Gabaldón and the Historical African American beach Gathering Place from Another Era in Santa Monica, Honored on June 1, 2013
- Reclamation of History for Community Engagement and Social Action, Now and in the Future
- Check out the Selective Media Coverage of Nick Gabaldón Day!
- “When Little Tokyo Went Bronze,” Don’t Miss the Project Bronzeville Symposium, Saturday, June 22, 2013
- Sierra Club’s Diversity Outdoor Hangout
- California Coastal Cleanup Day 2012 Events
- CA Coastal Cleanup Day in Santa Monica
- Coming Up: Two “White Wash” Screenings
- General
- Nick Gabaldón Day, African American Beach Culture Heritage and Ocean Stewardship
- Global Event for Social Action and More Inclusive American History, CCD, Sat., September 17
- Heritage Conservation and Nature Environmental Movements Must Diversify Or Die
- Check it out! What’s Out There Weekend Los Angeles, October 26-27, 2013
- A Fun Way to Learn about Pollution in the Ocean and Local History, New HTB Eco-Surf Mobile App
- Check out Pellom McDaniels, III upcoming book, The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy
- Heritage Conservation
- National Park Service approves Bay Street Beach Historic District Listing on the NRHP!
- The Problem with Ancestry.com
- SHRC Approves!, Nick Gabaldón Day 2019 and Living the California Dream
- L.A. County Beach NRHP Listing Supports Social, Racial and Environmental Equity at California’s Coast
- Nick Gabaldón Day Weekend Activities, June 2-3, 2018
- ARJ | New Year’s Greetings 2018 and Shining a Light on LA
- SM’s Bay St. Beach/Inkwell Monument, Int’l Coastal Cleanup Day 2017 Location
- SM Conservancy’s Youth Program Makes a Big Splash with So. Los Angeles Youngsters at Nick Gabaldón Day 2017 Celebration and Other Field Trips
- Featured 2017 Cameron Preservation Award winner: Alison Rose Jefferson, Ph.D.
- ¡It’s 2017. The Year of the Fire Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac is upon us, as is the yearly recognition of Black History and Women’s History!
- Successes in Recognition of African American History and Protection of Historic Sites In the City of the Angels and Beyond
- Nick Gabaldón Day and ICCC Day Milestones, and Upcoming 2017 Programming
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