In Compton, a School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/t-magazine/compton-communicative-arts-academy.html In Compton, a School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists Between 1969 and 1975, the Communicative Arts Academy was a vital hub for a community largely excluded from Los Angeles’s cultural institutions. A student at the Communicative Arts Academy in Compton, Calif., where the syllabus was designed to instill in participants a sense of Black pride.Credit...Courtesy of Willie Ford Jr. and the Compton Communicative Arts Academy Collection, Special Collections and Archives, John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, California State University, Los Angeles