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This Week in Black History
This Week in Black History, September 17, 1983
Vanessa Williams becomes the first Black woman to be crowned Miss America. Though smart, talented and beautiful, Williams was subjected…
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Lead Stories
Nurse facing trial in crash that killed six in South L.A.
Wave Wire Services LOS ANGELES — A prosecutor told jurors Sept. 8 that a traveling nurse drove through a red…
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Compton
New state-of-the-art school buses roll into Compton
By Emilie St. John Contributing Writer COMPTON — The Compton Unified School District kicked off the new academic year with…
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Entertainment
New year is starting at Watts-Willowbrook Music Academy
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer WATTS — Jeffrey Arredondo still remembers the first day he walked into what would become…
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Lead Stories
Talkback events seek to curate Black history
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer WATTS — The barbershop where the movement met, the church that hosted the after-school program,…
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Opinion
STREET BEAT: ‘Is being woke a thing of the past?’
Lacora Stephens Pasadena “It is alive and well, it’s just not being used in the rooted foundation of what it…
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Lead Stories
Planned Leimert Park run spurs Black-Latino clash
Leimert Park By Bo Tefu Contributing Writer LEIMERT PARK — Mayor Karen Bass urged Blacks and Latinos to resolve their…
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Opinion
Decades-long friendship tested by Trump and his policies
By Erin Aubry Kaplan Contributing Writer In 1973, I was in sewing class in seventh grade and having a miserable…
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Gentrification, not Barrio Athletics, is the real takeover threat
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist An artificial intelligence search found this about Leimert Park. Eighty percent of the businesses…
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Entertainment
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘By Any Means’ is action thriller set against civil rights movement
By Mark Kennedy Contributing Writer Hollywood has given us some classic mismatched buddy cop movies, like Nick Nolte and Eddie…
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