Residents face the daunting prospect of rebuilding their homes in this once-thriving historically Black community.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger said Wednesday that she wants to accelerate an analysis for the wildfires that have killed more than two dozen people and destroyed over 15,000 structu ...

In the 1950s, the money Townsend earned ... discriminatory redlining practices that prevented Black people from buying homes in certain Los Angeles neighborhoods. It’s not surprising Townsend ...

a neighborhood east of downtown LA and one of the oldest historically Black neighborhoods in Los Angeles. A few days later, the Sunset Fire arrived. This fire, burning just north of Sunset ...

Betty Bersinger was walking down Norton Avenue one morning in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert ... The case of Short — nicknamed the Black Dahlia — has both horrified and gripped ...

As of Friday, more than 170,000 people remain ... and Cierra Black told CNN they gathered a list of roughly 640 Black families who lost their homes in the hard-hit Los Angeles suburb of Altadena.

With much of the community of 43,000 largely destroyed, many question whether Altadena will be able to reclaim the diverse character and Black ... Los Angeles. “There’s a lot of elderly people ...

Mamma D was part of Old Black Hollywood ... to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner. 16 deaths are related to the Eaton Fire, eight others to the Palisades Fire. That is eight more people confirmed ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires ... local businesses that opened its doors to support people impacted by the Eaton Fire is Octavia's Bookshelf.

“It is hard,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1967 essay “Los Angeles Notebook,” “for people who have not lived ... in the videotaped beating of Black motorist Rodney King.

As access to many neighborhoods in the Eaton and Palisades fire zones remains off-limits, Los Angeles ... people literally looking for the remains of your neighbors. Please be patient with us ...