Councilmember Curren D. Price Jr. celebrates African American Heritage Month and presents a plaque to Alison Rose Jefferson for her work in preserving the history of Central Avenue and Los Angeles. Los...
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...
History Talk: A Long Beach Airport’s 100th Anniversary Celebration Event
Thursday, January 25, 2024, from 5.30 pm to 8.00 pm PT Billie Jean King Main Library 200 West Broadway Long Beach, California 90802 Please join us for a talk about the information that Philip S. Hart and...
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...




