Following two months of escalating protests, the September meeting of the Committee for Racial Justice was notable for the huge show of support and unity, not racist disruptions.
The event
Racial protests intensified at last week’s Committee for Racial Justice meeting with multiple groups and organizations rallying at Virginia Avenue Park.
Police detained some individuals over the course of
A local meeting addressing race relations in Santa Monica drew a small protest last week that meeting organizers are calling “racist and anti-Semitic.”
The Committee for Racial Justice organized the
Virginia Ave.
On July 9, the Committee for Racial Justice will present a framework for addressing white privilege that minimizes the defensiveness, which often accompanies such discussions and focuses on
On Sunday evening, March 5, in honor of Women’s Month, Committee For Racial Justice will host a diverse panel of Women Who Lead in Social Justice Movements. These women
It was the proverbial elephant in the room, but it wasn’t gray — it was black and white.
As the local Board of Education convened Wednesday evening to discuss strategies
The recent closure of the Santa Monica YWCA didn’t sit well with the Rev. Janet Gollery McKeithen.
As minister at the interfaith Church in Ocean Park, which is dedicated
The July 10 Committee For Racial Justice (CRJ) workshop will have a report from the Santa Monica based Coalition for Police Reform (CPR has members from CRJ, NAACP, and the
One of the obstacles to closing the Santa Monica-Malibu school district’s academic achievement gaps, Pedro Noguera says, is personnel turnover.
Changes in staff and administration, the education reformist argues,
On the night of April 21, Justin Leland Palmer was attempting to charge his electric vehicle at a Virginia Avenue Park charging station when Santa Monica police approached him.
Palmer,
To kick off the new school year, UCLA professor Dr. Tyrone Howard will speak on "Awakening the Genius in the African American Student" at the Committee for Racial
Join the Committee For Racial Justice for an interesting evening of discussion about the future of policing. The co-sponsors for this August 16 Day of Dialogue will be the Human