The Black History Art Walk held an opening reception at the Building Bridges Art Exchange Gallery at the Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, California this past weekend, Feb. 19

Los Angeles Rams football team and fans celebrated their Super Bowl LVI victory by hosting a parade.

Veterans Day Commemoration ceremony in Santa Monica, California.

The Santa Monica College Corsairs football team took the field against the Antelope Valley College Marauders on Saturday in their conference home opener. Down 29-14 with one quarter of play left, the Corsairs narrowed the lead to 36-31

SMC Corsairs went head to head with Ventura College (VC) Wednesday, Oct. 13, at Santa Monica College. Ventura College in the first couple minutes of the game found a way to put in a couple goals, only to have the Corsairs follow suit and only trail by 2 going into the half.

Every September 11th since 2008, Pepperdine University students have set up what is known

as Waves of Flags Display to honor those that lost their lives during the September 11, 2001

attacks.

A new interactive exhibit in Downtown Los Angeles, founded by artist Paige Solomon, tells the story of a once abandoned Madcap Motel. Inside, it's 18 themed rooms take visitors on a journey of "whimsical wonders and amusing adventures."

As the number of vaccinated Californians rises and the number of COVID-19 cases continues to decline, California remains on a slow but steady pace toward reopening. Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) guidance that allows for fully vaccinated people to enter public indoor areas unmasked, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state's mask mandate will remain through June 15. With a majority of the state’s counties being in the orange tier, the state has hopes to reopen on June 15.

The weekend after Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict was announced, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and the organization BLD PWR, organized a memorial for victims of police violence.

On Sunday, March 11, 2021, “White Lives Matter” protestors and “Black Lives Matter” counterprotestors converged in Huntington Beach, California.

It seems that airports and travel will look considerably different from before 2020 - much in the same way that it was transformed after 9/11. With vaccination efforts underway, and mutations appearing around the globe it remains to be seen how travel will look in the future.

Construction is expected to finish at the end of 2021, and will open to students in 2022.

The night before their grand re-opening, Amoeba Music opened its doors for a preview of its brand new store on Hollywood Blvd. The original store on Sunset Blvd. closed abruptly last year due to COVID-19.

As more of Los Angeles County’s 10 million residents become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, inadequate supply continues to be a major hurdle in the race to get back to pre-pandemic normalcy.

About a year ago, just after the first COVID-19 lockdown, The Corsair published photos of an almost deserted Venice Beach (Spring 2020, Issue 4). Now the crowds are back and Venice Beach is jumping again.

The city of Santa Monica's newest recreational facility, Historic Belmar Park, will be officially opened on February 28th. The park honors the memory of the black community that lived in the area, and who were displaced in the 1950s to make way for the Santa Monica Civic Center.

265 days ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as the first pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. 265 days ago, many of us had to look up the difference between “epidemic” and “pandemic.”