Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
In Altadena, many fear that offers from speculators and the challenges of rebuilding will unravel a community of Black ...
A legacy destroyed: Altadena's Black residents fear neighborhood's soul may never return
Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have ...
For historically Black Altadena, the combined wildfire loss of generational wealth and personal heirlooms is indescribable
For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...
Los Angeles wildfires spark interest in adobe, natural building materials
Marialyce Pedersen stood in a white Tyvek suit on her Altadena, California, lot leveled by this month's wildfires. Pedersen ...
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President Donald Trump, as he is traveling to California to tour wildfire damage, said that someone invited Sen. Adam Schiff ...
Los Angeles Times9d
The destruction of Altadena reverberates across Black Los Angeles
As Los Angeles communities were forced to integrate, Black residents often faced intimidation or outright violence when moving into predominantly white neighborhoods. But Altadena took a different ...
California Wildfires: After Trump visit, expected rain may boost firefighting efforts
President Trump repeated falsehoods about California’s firefighting efforts on Friday and blamed Democratic officials for a ...
A storied Black community fears wildfires will claim its history
Altadena, the Los Angeles suburb leveled by the Eaton Fire, has a thriving Black community that bought homes in the civil ...
Wall Street Journal4d
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
In a time of declining Black homeownership in California, Altadena stood out ... compared with 32% across Los Angeles County. Median home values for Altadena’s Black households were $961,000 ...
USA Today7d
A legacy destroyed: Altadena's Black residents fear neighborhood's soul may never return
making it among Los Angeles County's first Black middle class havens. Numerous family members followed and like others passed their homes down through generations as California’s real estate ...
Which LA Fire Victims Get Money on GoFundMe — and Who Gets Left Out?
GoFundMe campaigns tend to favor the white and wealthy. After the Eaton fire, Altadena’s Black community is fighting back.
City Journal3d
Remembering My Lost Los Angeles
A lifelong Californian pens an elegy for his burned city.