New ‘Say Their Names’ memorial in SB Funk Zone remembers Black lives

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A new ‘Say Their Names’ memorial was completed Wednesday in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone.

The memorial features more than 200 black-and-white pictures of Black men, women and children whose lives were cut short by racism, injustice or police brutality.

The new memorial adorns a chain link fence on Anacapa Street near Mason Street. The initial design went up a few blocks away last month, then came down three weeks later as plans for this new memorial…