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We talk to Shonna McDaniels, director of the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum, about the cultural institution she founded over 25 years ago, the many Black pioneers around the region, and the relationship between race and the arts.
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media The disturbing story of Los Angeles County’s Bruce’s Beach Park — location of the first West Coast seaside resort for Black beachgoers and a residential enclave for a few African American families – has been making headlines around the country. One hundred years ago, Manhattan Beach city officials seized the Bruce’s beachfront property from an African American couple, Charles and Willa Bruce, citing an “urgent need” to build a city park. But the area was not developed for recreational use after it wa...