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Get a closer look at the history of Bruce’s Beach through an exhibit at the California African American Museum at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. Historian Alison Rose Jefferson, author of the book ...

In the late 19 th century, African American beach communities began to emerge in places like Highland Beach, MD and Cape May, NJ. They provided havens for Black vacationers excluded from white resort ...

The mood was bright 100 years ago as the Pacific Beach Club neared completion by today’s Newland Street and Pacific Coast Highway — just south of Huntington Beach’s 1925 borders. Southern California’s ...

SHARING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY OF NEW SMYRNA BEACH IS THE MISSION OF THE MARY S HERALD BLACK HERITAGE MUSEUM. THERE A SMALL BUT MIGHTY GROUP TELLING THE STORY OF HOW THE CITY’S HISTORICALLY ...

Inside the Expo Arts Center, in Long Beach’s Bixby Knolls neighborhood, is a growing home for Black history — and the future narrative of African American culture in the city and beyond. The African ...