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Though early records are murky due to a lack of primary source historical records, we can piece together a legacy of Black-owned restaurants in Los Angeles stretching back to 1888. -
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Before there was Dodger Stadium or Chavez Ravine, there were La Loma, Bishop and Palo Verde. These neighborhoods were home to 1,100 families — including mine.
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The Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park was founded in 1928 by Dr. Eugene Jones, a veterinarian who mainly served Hollywood elites.
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Never before or since has the simmering resentment between workers and employers boiled over the way it did that day.
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After a surge in anti-Asian incidents, support is growing to build a memorial at the massacre site in downtown L.A.
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For a decade and a half, it was one of the few places where people of color could enjoy SoCal's spectacular coast.
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After her neighborhood was bisected by a railroad, she placed a railroad tie and a steel bar on a newly laid section of track, hoping to derail an express train. She tied a note to it demanding $10,000.
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The games were more than casual fun. They were massive public assemblies where people could socialize and strategize.
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The self-proclaimed mystic was an elusive, counter-culture curio who collected female acolytes. Shortly after his death, they disappeared.
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The mountain resort was so famous for its epic parties, William Randolph Hearst considered it a rival to his San Simeon estate.
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Did the government really give away millions of acres of valuable California land for free? Yes, it did.
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