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Leana Brunson-McClain grew up in the heart of Santa Monica’s Black community during its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s. According to Brunson lore, the family moved to San…
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Photo by Mark Carrel / Stock.adobe.com. The idea of reparations for slavery—a polarizing topic—continues to gain traction in US society. According to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, 18 percent o…
Photo of Areva Martin with Section 14 Survivors / Courtesy of Areva Martin Palm Springs, California, an affluent desert community one hundred miles east of Los Angeles, is known for tourism and for…
Carolyne and Bill Edwards founded the Alfred T. Quinn Research Center in 2019 to document the history of Santa Monica’s Black community for future generations. The…
Black beachgoers Verna Deckard and Arthur Lewis pictured in front of a fence demarcating Santa Monica’s whites-only Club Casa Del Mar. Blacks were relegated to a small roped-off area known as the Ba…
Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social justice. Tens of thousands of American…
September 26, 2024Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social justice. Tens of thousands of American…
Photo of Holocaust survivor Eva Weyl speaking to a young participant at the BVB-Lernzentrum in Dortmund / Christina Walther Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highligh…
Katharina Oguntoye in front of a model for the Memorial for the Forgotten Souls / Photo courtesy of Carolyn Gammon Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the ef…
Photo by Stacey Reynolds Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of socia…
August 30, 2023Dr. Cornel West / Courtesy of AAE Speakers Cornel West, who recently retired from Princeton University as the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, vis…
Ebony Iman Dallas, Songs of Freedom (2021), acrylic and Ghanaian textiles on hand-carved birchwood / Portrait of activist and teacher Clara Luper singing with members of the NAACP…
Shoshana Bellen standing in front of a typical building in DP Camp Föhrenwald, 1948 (Blimeh Hellman) In his ongoing column, which appears in every other issue, Karlos K. Hill highlights t…
Fulton Leroy Washington (aka Mr. Wash), Emancipation Proclamation (2014) / Courtesy of the artist / ARTBYWASH.COM The story of how Fulton Leroy Washington became an internationally a…
