Stories matching tag 'African American'
Inglewood restaurant offers meat-free meals in a sea of fast food options
Some African Americans in Inglewood are embracing a meat-free diet. And in Inglewood, there's only one place to go: Stuff I Eat. [...]
USC African American beauty art exhibit nears its last week
“Posing Beauty in African American Culture” opened in September 2011 and will end its run on Saturday, December 3. [...]
Black church studies a changed South LA
Second Baptist Church commissioned a study to better understand the neighborhood, partnering with USC’s Center for Immigrant Integration and Esperanza Community Housing. [...]
Toni Morrison’s Bluest Eye re-visited
Morrison's story about the warped development of identity for young black women is still loud and clear in modern culture. [...]
Preserving the history of Black firefighters
A visit to a Los Angeles museum that charts the history of African American firefighters [...]
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo and harmony between Latinos and African Americans
Racial harmony was a theme at the Cinco de Mayo celebration staged in the shadow of the Watts towers. The Watts/Century Latino Organization sponsored its 17th annual celebration marking the holiday -- and celebrating the ties between Latinos and African-Americans.
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