Black entrepreneurs built beach havens in California. Racism shut them down.

The hidden history of Santa Monica’s Black coastal enclaves.

Artist’s rendering of the Ebony Beach Club, circa 1958. Courtesy Connie White.

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Working to inform and inspire people — through in-depth journalism — to act on behalf of the West’s diverse natural and human communities.