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Historic Belmar Park Commemorating Santa Monica's African American Community Virtual Grand Opening Celebration Feb. 28 eurweb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurweb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Reply Santa Monica will honor its historic Black community in a virtual event on Feb. 28. (Courtesy of the City of Santa Monica) SANTA MONICA, CA The City of Santa Monica will host a virtual grand opening celebration to unveil Historic Belmar Park, Santa Monica s newest open space on Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. The recreation space is an expansion of Santa Monica s parks and reflects on some of Santa Monica s earliest members of the Black community, where residents lived from 1900 to the 1950s, the city announced. We are proud to open Santa Monica s newest open space, Historic Belmar Park, and to unveil the culmination of the Belmar History + Art project, a community-driven effort to explore, celebrate and shine a bright light on the site of Santa Monica s former thriving African American neighborhood, Mayor Sue Himmelrich said in a statement. I hope we will see many Santa Monicans young and old join the virtual celebration and that every resident will find time to sa ....