I often pass Pastor Wade's house while walking my dog. I turn the corner on 23rd St, pass the bushes and see his van in the driveway alerting me that when the rapture came, I could have his car. Often I would see him standing on his front lawn and…
This is a reprint of an article we published on Cecil Fergerson in TNN issue #14 October, 2010
Fergerson grew up in South Central, attending Compton Community College. In 1948 he went to work as a custodian at the old Los Angeles County Museum at Exposition Park, moving to Los Angeles…
{jcomments off}Mid City resident, Eula Mae Jordan English, the wife of pioneering attorney Herman A. English died of cancer on Wednesday, November 13, 2014 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center surrounded by family.
Beginning in the 1950s, Eula English and attorney Herman A. English were a power couple of LA’s elite,…
On July 30th George Stamouvlasis (Stamos) the owner of Capitol Burgers, passed away. Capitol, located at the corner of Pico Blvd. and South Victoria Ave., has been a neighborhood staple for nearly 50 years serving up some of the best hamburgers and pastrami sandwiches in Los Angeles. Customers sang…
With the recent passing of long time Mid-City resident, Jo Schaefer, we have lost an avid, dedicated community activist and supportive friend of many. Jo began her activism as the first student director of the Educational Participation In Communities (EPIC)program out of Cal State L.A. where she organized students…
Leo Branton Jr., a civil rights and entertainment lawyer who championed the underdog, died April 19 in Los Angeles. He was also father to Tony Nicholas who runs the Tom Bradley Youth and Family Center on Pico. Leo was, 91, and a longtime resident of LaFayette Square. We reprint the…
Regina Jones remembers Willis Edwards.At age 66 and on Friday, July 13th, Willis Edwards succumbed to cancer. Willis was a celebrated force as a civil rights and political activist, once heading the Beverly Hills-Hollywood Branch of the NAACP and shaking things up when he ran the NAACP Image Awards.…
The poet Robert Frost proclaimed, “Good fences good neighbors make”. But in a time when we’ve taken fence building to extremes, our family was blessed with a neighbor who took them down.
From the time we moved into the Western Heights neighborhood in 1994, Mel Cannel gave meaning to the…
On March 10, drivers travelling along Adams, west of Crenshaw, were met with a remarkable site.
Approximately 700 bikers representing motorcycle clubs from around the state converged on the Southern Memorial Baptist Church to pay respect to one of their own, John McCallum or as they knew him, Pee Wee.…
Elena A. Brown Anthony dedicated 37 years of motivation, inspiration, and leadership to the progress and enhancement of student education in our community.
She began a teaching career at James A. Foshay Junior High School then transferred to Susan Miller Dorsey High School where she advanced from English teacher to…
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