News from communities around Los Angeles
March 13, 2020
Breonna Taylor is killed when Louisville, Kentucky, police officers issuing a no-knock search warrant enter her home looking for her ex-boyfriend. Her death sparked extensive protests against police brutality.
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July 18, 1863 The 54th Massachusetts volunteer army, composed of free black men, charges Fort Wagner in Charleston, S.C. The attack, featured in the film […]
Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African-American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry, “Annie Allen,” a coming-of-age tale about a young […]
June 2, 1875 James Augustine Healy, a Roman Catholic priest in Portland, Maine, became the first black Catholic bishop in the United States. Healy’s mother […]