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‘Black August’ marks month of study, remembrance and prison history
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  • South Los Angeles

‘Black August’ marks month of study, remembrance and prison history

  • August 14, 2025

LOS ANGELES — In Los Angeles and beyond, Black August is not a festival or holiday. Born inside California’s prison system more than four decades […]

South L.A. could lose  Black council seat as Price’s Latino deputy emerges in 9th District
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  • South Los Angeles

South L.A. could lose Black council seat as Price’s Latino deputy emerges in 9th District

  • August 7, 2025

LOS ANGELES — The 9th Council District on the Los Angeles City Council has been represented by a Black elected official for more than 60 […]

Inglewood hair stylists seek equity in beauty supply access
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  • Inglewood

Inglewood hair stylists seek equity in beauty supply access

  • July 31, 2025

INGLEWOOD — Cyndrea Mathews spent years greeting customers by name as they walked into her sunlit salon near the edge of Culver City and Inglewood. […]

Watts residents demand answers as $850,000 pollution settlement sits idle
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  • South Los Angeles

Watts residents demand answers as $850,000 pollution settlement sits idle

  • July 24, 2025

WATTS — In 2023, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office secured a $2 million settlement from Atlas Iron & Metal, a metal recycling yard […]

Leimert Park draws record Black Lives Matter crowd, spotlights Wakiesha’s Law
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  • South Los Angeles

Leimert Park draws record Black Lives Matter crowd, spotlights Wakiesha’s Law

  • July 18, 2025

LEIMERT PARK — Twelve years after Black Lives Matter was born, Los Angeles remains at the center of its most enduring demand: that Black families […]

South L.A. residents frustrated as new ‘parks’ mean more concrete, little shade
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  • South Los Angeles

South L.A. residents frustrated as new ‘parks’ mean more concrete, little shade

  • July 10, 2025

SOUTH LOS ANGELES — In 2016, Los Angeles County voters passed Measure A with the hope of transforming the region’s neglected parks.  Framed as a […]

New Black cultural district could make South L.A. a model for the nation
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  • South Los Angeles

New Black cultural district could make South L.A. a model for the nation

  • June 27, 2025

SOUTH LOS ANGELES — California is moving forward with plans to create a black cultural district in South Los Angeles, backed by $3 million in […]

As ICE raids escalate, Black Angelenos debate solidarity with Latino immigrants
  • Lead Stories
  • South Los Angeles

As ICE raids escalate, Black Angelenos debate solidarity with Latino immigrants

  • June 19, 2025

LOS ANGELES — As many as 30,000 protesters — predominantly Latino — descended on downtown June 14 for the No King’s Day protest, waving Mexican […]

South LA civil rights attorney Carl Douglas reflects on justice at 70
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  • South Los Angeles

South LA civil rights attorney Carl Douglas reflects on justice at 70

  • June 11, 2025

LOS ANGELES — Carl Douglas doesn’t take many days off, but on a recent birthday, he made an exception. As he looked back on more […]

Nate Holden, longtime L.A. powerbroker, dies at 95
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  • South Los Angeles

Nate Holden, longtime L.A. powerbroker, dies at 95

  • May 17, 2025

SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Accolades continued to pour in for Nate Holden, a political force in South Los Angeles for more than 50 years, who […]

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