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- View Park–Windsor Hills, Los Angeles County, California. History: View Park–Windsor Hills is one of the richest Black communities in the U.S. and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
- Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California. History: Baldwin Hills is the largest middle- and upper-class Black community in Los Angeles. Dubbed “The Black Beverly Hills” because of the actors and musicians who have flocked to it, the community found itself in the spotlight with the BET docudrama Baldwin Hills in 2007.
- Ladera Heights, Los Angeles County, California. History: Also with stunning views, it shares a border on the north with Baldwin Hills, on the east with View Park and on the south with Inglewood.
- Mitchellville and Woodmore, Prince George’s County, Maryland. History: Mitchellville is named after the owners of the plantation that it was built on. Today, tobacco farms are replaced by a thriving Black residential community.
Jul 16, 2020 · In Southern California, the Black population climbed around 400% in Palmdale and Victorville, shrinking by 45% in Compton and 26% in Los Angeles. Black Californians are increasingly leaving expensive cities to search for homeownership, safety and better schools in suburbia — or other states altogether.
Oct 22, 2021 · It’s a crazy thing to consider: Redlining and restrictive covenants created the Black neighborhoods of South L.A., and now most Black people can’t afford to buy — or even rent — there.
- Erika D. Smith
- Columnist
- erika.smith@latimes.com
Mar 9, 2022 · If California does decide to pay reparations, who should get it? All Black people? Or only Black people who can trace their lineage to chattel slavery?
- Erika D. Smith
- Columnist
- erika.smith@latimes.com
Jun 19, 2020 · California’s housing crisis is nothing new for many Black Californians. Systemic racism in public policy and the private housing market has long made finding a safe, stable and affordable home in the Golden State a more difficult prospect for its roughly 2.2 million Black residents than for white people.
Dec 24, 2021 · White and Asian workers earn a median income above $51,000 annually, while Black, Native American, and Latino workers earn less than $37,000. In every rural and urban area in California, White workers make above the median income and Latino workers earn below the median, according to the report.
Aug 15, 2021 · Desert Highland Gateway Estates, about three miles from downtown Palm Springs, became home to some of the hundreds of Black people who moved to desert communities last century from the South...
