Film & Talk: To Right a Wrong – Ballard Mountain
California African American Museum 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, United StatesThis thirteen-minute film documents a community campaign to change the name of a local peak in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Previously known as a racial slur, the mountain was renamed in 2010 to honor the first Black family to homestead in the Santa Monica Mountains. This community’s actions reverberated across the region, […]