Before this year's graduates head on to that next step in their lives, we want to take a moment to let their star shine here on Patch.

A blatant act of starkly racial police brutality — charged as murder — has ripped the nation into pieces on the ground. Streets exploded in fury in at least 125 cities.

Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown signed Former President Obama’s Mayor’s pledge calling for mayors, city councils, and police oversight bodies to address police use of force policies.

In a conversation timely to the world’s current events, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District recently provided an update on the Social Justice integration work currently being undertaken by the district.

Santa Monica NewsBlack Girls Surf and World Surf League held a safe paddle out for “Solidarity in Surfing” at Santa Monica Inkwell Beach Tower 20 last Friday afternoon.

The amount of ‘lip service’ the progressive City of Santa Monica gives to minority causes is incredible. We supported the recent demonstration in town  to honor the life  and protest the death of George Floyd in Minn.

Local officials announced last week measures to help businesses that were targeted by looters during a protest against police violence last Sunday.

I write to ask that we, as a city, and you Council Members, as our elected officials, immediately rethink the role of, and the manner of, policing of our city.

Santa Monica College’s John Drescher Planetarium resumes its Friday evening events in June with free, live virtual shows presented online at smc.edu/planetarium. The shows include an update on plans to explore Mars,

Thousands of people protested across Santa Monica and Venice Friday from morning until evening. © Michael Wittner/Patch People protest along Wilshire Bouleva