This year’s global Coastal Cleanup Day takes place on Saturday, September 17. Santa Monica College, the Santa Monica Conservancy, Heal the Bay, the L.A. Black Underwater Explorers and other...
SI’s New African American Museum Opens
The Time Has Finally Come. The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) opens to the public on September 24 on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It will be the 19th museum of...
African American Leisure, Southern California Tales and Bruce’s Beach
If you missed my April 26 lecture at the Manhattan Beach Public Library on African American and women’s history at the early twentieth century Bruce’s Beach in the South Bay of Los Angeles County, here...
Heritage Conservation and Nature Environmental Movements Must Diversify Or Die
My title of this article plays off an article title by Brentin Mock, the justice editor for Grist.com. He offers some really thought provoking commentaries on a variety of issues around the natural and...
African Americans, Women and Beach Culture in the News!
Over the last few months several articles appeared about African Americans’ and women’s history of enjoying the beach culture of California. First up, Ryan Reft's three articles written for KCET’s...
Nick Gabaldón Day 2014 Kicks of the Summer Season, Sat., June 14, at Santa Monica’s Historical African American Beach Gathering Place From Another Era
The sun was out and the surf was up for the Saturday, June 14, 2014 day of celebration around the pioneering African American and Mexican surfer Nick Gabaldón (1927-1951) and others that have come before...





