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    Feb 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Norma Merrick Sklarek dies; pioneering African American architect

    Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first African American woman in the country to become a licensed architect, who helped produce Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport and the American Embassy in Tokyo, died Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades. She was 85.
    Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first African American woman in the country to become a licensed architect, who helped produce Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport and the American Embassy in Tokyo, died Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades....

    Tags: U.S. Embassy, Business Enterprises, Engineering, Heart Failure, Science and Technology

    2. Aug 25, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. PASSINGS: Leroy Miller, Suzanne Grossmann

    <b>Leroy Miller</b>
    Leroy Miller L.A. architect mainly used brick, concrete Leroy Miller, 78, a Los Angeles architect who designed commercial, residential and institutional buildings mainly of brick and concrete and whose noted work includes the Evco Film Library...

    Tags: University of Michigan, Theater, Celebrities, Architecture, Family

    3. Apr 27, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Dr. Hassan Hathout dies at 84; Islamic leader fostered interfaith relations

    Dr. Hassan Hathout, a physician, medical ethicist and leader of the Southern California Islamic community who was at the forefront of efforts to demystify American Muslims and build interfaith bonds, has died. He was 84.
    Dr. Hassan Hathout, a physician, medical ethicist and leader of the Southern California Islamic community who was at the forefront of efforts to demystify American Muslims and build interfaith bonds, has died. He was 84. Hathout died of natural causes...

    Tags: Judaism, Death, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Obituaries, Islam

    4. Jan 31, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Bayard F. Berman dies at 88; attorney won desegregation case against L.A. Unified

    Bayard F. Berman, a lead attorney on the Los Angeles school desegregation lawsuit that led to three years of busing and an exodus of whites from the city's public schools, died Jan. 20 at the Veterans Affairs hospital in West Los Angeles. He was 88.
    Bayard F. Berman, a lead attorney on the Los Angeles school desegregation lawsuit that led to three years of busing and an exodus of whites from the city's public schools, died Jan. 20 at the Veterans Affairs hospital in West Los Angeles. He was 88....

    Tags: Lawyers, Obituaries, Defense, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Army

    5. Nov 13, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. A long tradition of activism

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    All Saints Episcopal Church seems to embody staid, moneyed old Pasadena. Facing City Hall, the 80-year-old Gothic Revival church has glowing stained-glass windows by Tiffany and the local Judson Studios. But though the medieval-looking church exudes...

    Tags: Lawyers, Social Problems, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians, National or Ethnic Minorities

    6. Mar 6, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  6. Rose Freeman dies at 82

    Variety
    Rose Freeman, an actress under the name Joan Taylor who later managed the "Hawaii Five-O" property created by her husband, writer-producer Leonard Freeman, died of natural causes in Santa Monica on Sunday, March 4. She was 82. Freeman started her...

    Tags: Movies, Rose Marie, Romance (genre), Chuck Connors, Entertainment

    7. Apr 10, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  7. Exhibit features mail from Holocaust victims and discussion with survivors

    TribLocal - Deerfield » News
    Deerfield's Chicagoland Jewish High School on Sunday afternoon is presenting a free Holocaust exhibit that includes a Nazi-era mail, a documentary film and panel discussion …...
    8. Mar 25, 2002 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Sex abuse by clerics is crisis of many faiths

    Times Staff Writer
    The wave of clergy sex scandals now engulfing the Roman Catholic Church has battered other denominations as well, producing an uneven record of response that ranges from the Episcopal Church's aggressive and detailed policies to the Southern Baptist...

    Tags: Crimes, Christian Orthodoxy, Methodist, Ethics, Abusive Behavior

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