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Pioneering Los Angeles Times Writer Dies

AP | Posted 03.21.2012 | Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES -- Dorothy Townsend, the first female staff writer for the Los Angeles Times' city section and the lone woman on a team of dozens of repor...

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Forty-Five Years After the "Watts Riot", King Hospital Remains Crucial to Healing the Lingering Wounds

Mark Ridley-Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Racism, Los Angeles, Watts Riots, Los Angeles News
Mark Ridley-Thomas

Forty-five years ago this week, an explosion of violence set Los Angeles aflame, in a rebellion against centuries of racism that would be burned into American history as the "Watts Riot."

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Black History Month in Los Angeles. Anybody Notice?

Ronald Ricker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Black History, Los Angeles, Mark Ridley Thomas, 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Stokely Carmichael, Maxine Waters, Watts Riots, Black History Month, Los Angeles News
Ronald Ricker

The unemployment rate in Los Angeles for African Americans is nearly 20%. They are a huge pool of people who are able and want to work. Los Angeles owes them and I want to keep them here.

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