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.




