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STREET BEAT: ‘Who is your personal Black history hero?’

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Baron Burems

Pasadena

Malcolm X. He was for the people. What he did was an extension of Dr. Martin Luther King and I believe in all that.”

 

 

Adrian Walton

Fort Worth, Texas

Medgar Evers. I’m originally from Mississippi.  You had Emmett Till and Rosa Parks, but Medgar Evers had a profound effect on the state of Mississippi.

 

 

 

Tevin Jones

Los Angeles

“Dr. Martin Luther King. His fight for liberty, his fight for justice, his fight for equality for all people is inspiring me today even in 2026.”

 

 

 

Dria Thornton

Houston, Texas

Rosa Parks because I feel like that would have been me. I look at her as a celebration of having no fear and that’s what I have — no fear.

Compiled by Cynthia Gibson in Culver City.

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