Remembering Altadena, California: NCAT Professor Highlights Town's Role in Evolution of the Black Middle Class
As communities rebuild across California after January's fires, one NCAT professor sheds light on ongoing concerns in Altadena ...
Can Altadena's Black population survive fire, or will it disappear along with its history?
These homes and other structures were monuments to the Black residents drawn to Altadena, first as domestic workers in the estates of millionaires and later as a rising middle ... high school at 16 ...
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Will L.A.’s Fires Permanently Disperse the Black Families of Altadena?
In a Los Angeles suburb, multigenerational families like the Benns found affordable housing and a deep sense of connection.
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After the Eaton wildfire, St. Elizabeth School in Altadena leans on its history
Three teachers ... the Altadena school in 1919. “A year after that came the Spanish flu, and the sisters survived that,” Cremer said. She invoked that episode in her school’s history again ...
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‘The Wild Robot’ Composer Kris Bowers on Family, Power of Music and Message Not to Forget ‘Wealth of Black History’ Lost in Altadena
While he was celebrating his achievement, Altadena, the town near where ... a lot of people that my daughter goes to school with, some of her teachers.” The fires forced Bowers and his family ...
‘It’s All Gone’: Devastation, Survival, and Hope From the California Fires
IT’S EASY to shorthand Los Angeles as a dream factory, a place populated solely by movie stars, award shows, influencers, and ...
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Can Altadena's Black population survive fire, or will it disappear along with its history?
The two-bedroom house along East Altadena Drive was purchased ... "Gwen," had graduated from a Chicago high school at 16 and later worked as a special education teacher in California.