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Virtual Belmar Park Event To Honor Santa Monica's Black Community


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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 ....

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