By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Mattie C. Caruthers, a decades-long showbiz professional, worked on many classic, high-profile sitcoms, in various capacities, before she got the […]
Category: Features
Kent Gash directs ‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ in Pasadena
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer PASADENA — The first time Kent Gash saw the iconic musical “Jelly’s Last Jam” was an original run on Broadway […]
SPORTS DIGEST: MLB adds Negro League stats to record book
By Don Wanlass Contributing Writer Josh Gibson died more than 77 years ago, about three months before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier for Major […]
in Black History June 5, 1973
Post to Features and This Week in Black History with photo BLACK 053024 Former Compton schoolteacher Doris A. Davis, who had been elected the city’s […]
Artist Lauren Halsey has her own vision of South L.A.
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Columnist SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Lauren Halsey is a passionate and vocal supporter of her hometown of South Central Los Angeles. […]
Organization prepares next generation of Black percussionists
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — Raynor Carroll was a Los Angeles Philharmonic principal percussionist/timpanist for 33 years. He remembers looking out into […]
SPORTS DIGEST: Ohtani is everything Dodgers hoped he would be
By Don Wanlass Contributing Writer Almost a third of the way through the baseball season and the Dodgers are where they are supposed to be […]
This Week in Black History May 27, 1958
Ernest Green, who joined eight Black classmates in challenging racial segregation in public schools, becomes the first member of the “Little Rock Nine” to graduate […]
THE Q&A: Play takes another view of L.A.’s 1992 uprising
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — The year 1992 was a volatile one for the city of Los Angeles. That was the year […]
SPORTS DIGEST: Dodgers enter easy stretch of schedule with 29-15 record
By Don Wanlass Contributing Writer The Los Angeles Dodgers hit a slight bump in the road last weekend against the San Diego Padres, losing two […]