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Black homeownership flourished, creating a foundation for economic empowerment that spanned generations. Now, in just 24 hours, relentless Santa Ana winds and roaring wildfires have reduced this ...
In 1960, Black residents represented just 4% of the local population. By 1970, the Black population had expanded to 27%. By 1980, the Black population in Altadena grew to represent 43% of all ...
With 3.8 million Los Angeles city residents, and Los Angeles County’s over 800,000 undocumented immigrants — by USC estimates — more concentrated in the City of Los Angeles, it’s likely ...
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies). University of California Press, August 1, 2006. ISBN 0520249909, 9780520249905. Hunt, Darnell and Ana-Christina Ramón (editors). Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. NYU Press, April 19, 2010.
A massive crowd of protesters blocked traffic on a downtown Los Angeles freeway, causing major delays, in response to President Donald Trump's illegal immigration crackdown.
2008: Los Angeles, CA – Locke High School riot [43] 2009: Oakland, CA – 2009 Oakland riots (peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man, by a BART transit policeman). 2014–2015: Ferguson, MO – The Ferguson unrest (a series of riots that broke out over the shooting of Michael Brown).
Korean immigrant shop-owners had a growing presence in black communities since before the 1970s. [33] Korean immigrants bought their storefronts in black neighborhoods such as South Los Angeles because the real estate was significantly cheaper than other neighborhoods. Since then, they had been a target of anger from both black shop-owners and ...
The wildfires raging throughout Los Angeles County began on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, and have scorched more than 30,000 acres of land and left thousands displaced.