On December 1, the 50th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks, a small, middle-aged African American seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give her seat on city bus to a white man, Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus reserved the first seat on each of its buses in her name.
Parks’ arrest sparked a bus boycott that, in turn, set the civil rights movement in America in motion.
Parks died two months ago.
Ramps along the 10-mile closure area of the 405 Freeway between the 10 and 101 freeways will begin to be shut down for “Carmageddon II” as early as 7 p.m. tonight and closure of individual […]
The Mauli Ola Foundation (MOF), a public non-profit organization dedicated to assisting those with genetic diseases, will hold its 2012 National Tour’s Surf Experience Day at Santa Monica Beach this Saturday, July 14. The event […]