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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 move…
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Black Reparations and Restorative Justice: A Bearing Witness Portfolio
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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 p…
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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…
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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.…
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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 t…
