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5 days ago · Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. profiles revolutionary men—including Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Kendrick Lamar—whose journeys have altered the history and culture of the country. Their achievements are woven within the legacy and traditions of the African American experience, becoming emblems of excellence in spite of society’s barriers ...
4 days ago · Francisco P. Ramirez (1869): [157] First Mexican American male lawyer in Los Angeles County, California. Ygnacio Sepúlveda: [158] First (Mexican-born) male to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County (1879) R. C. O. Benjamin (1884): [4] [5] First African American male lawyer in Los Angeles, California.
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3 days ago · 1920s and 1930s. African-Americans first formed street gangs in the late 1920s and early 1930s on the Eastside of Los Angeles near Central and Vernon Avenues. They were also forming clubs in the downtown area of Los Angeles where they first settled around the same time.
5 days ago · Susan D. Anderson, CAAM History Curator and Program Manager, looks at the interconnected—and sometimes separate—legacies of Black and LGBTQ+ activism. In 1968, Frank Kameny, a towering figure in the mid-20th-century gay rights movement, coined the phrase “Gay is Good.” Kameny said he was inspired by the “Black is Beautiful” ethos emanating from the era’s mobilized African ...
6 days ago · Elizabeth Kenney (1897): First female lawyer in Los Angeles, California [Los Angeles County, California] Orfa Jean Shontz (1913): First female referee of the Juvenile Court of Los Angeles County, California (1915-1920) Georgia Bullock (1913): First female judge in Los Angeles County, California (1931)
4 days ago · 20th Century Studios, major American film studio formed in 1935 by the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures and the Fox Film Corporation. Since 2019 it has been a subsidiary of the Disney Company. Headquarters are in Los Angeles. Origins. William Fox was a New York City exhibitor who began distributing films in 1904 and producing them in 1913 ...
3 days ago · West Hollywood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated in 1984, it is home to the Sunset Strip . As of the 2020 U.S. Census , its population was 35,757.
