The former home of civil rights activist, journalist and attorney Loren Miller was recommended as a Historic-Cultural Monument today by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission.
Kazuo K. Inouye of Kashu Realty was a second-generation Japanese American who made it his business to populate racially restricted Los Angeles neighborhoods with Angelenos of color, thus shaping the culture of the city block by block, for generations to come.
Loren Miller was one of the nation s most prominent civil rights lawyers. Now his home in Silver Lake has been tapped to become a historic city landmark.
Though early records are murky due to a lack of primary source historical records, we can piece together a legacy of Black-owned restaurants in Los Angeles stretching back to 1888.
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — One Sunday morning in June 1924, thousands of Mississippians — Black and white — flocked to a bayou in Gulfport, along Mississippi s Gulf Coast.