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H.H. Brookins dies at 86; pastor was influential black leader
The Rev. Hamel Hartford Brookins, an influential bishop and former pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles who became a political power broker, civil rights leader and mentor to former Mayor Tom Bradley, the Rev. Jesse...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Local Elections
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Willis Edwards dies at 66; L.A. civil rights activist
Willis Edwards, a civil rights and political activist in Los Angeles' African American community and the former leader of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch of the NAACP who was a controversial force behind its entertainment industry Image Awards, has...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arsenio Hall, NAACP Image Awards, Academy Awards, Entertainment
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Donald Trump and Mitt Romney live in a different America
Donald Trump has endorsed Mitt Romney, which proves that two rich guys can spend months insulting each other and still come around to the realization that they share one deep and overriding interest: money.
Sharing a stage with Trump on Thursday in Las...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Rick Perry, Donald Trump
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Southern California Close-Ups: From West Hollywood to Wilshire
Set an out-of-towner loose to roam the Los Angeles area between West Hollywood and Koreatown and what can you expect? A food-truck overdose, perhaps. Or the bold suggestion that we extend our subway system westward. (Hey, we're working on it.) Or maybe...Tags: Automotive Equipment, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Dining and Drinking, Halloween
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Book review: 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Alfred A. Knopf: 736 pp., $35 "The Passage of Power," the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, encompasses the period of LBJ's deepest humiliation and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Robert Moses, Book, Southeast Asia, Political Corruption
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Nicholas Katzenbach dies at 90; attorney general under Johnson
WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of State, University of Mississippi, Justice System
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C. David Heymann dies at 67; controversial bestselling biographer
C. David Heymann, a bestselling biographer whose titillating accounts of famous lives often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled because of factual disputes, has died. He was 67.
Heymann...Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Book
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Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street
Jacket CopyBarbara Demick says that" real Sarajevans don’t like to talk about the war," but her book, "Logavina Street," follows the lives of a small community during the conflict. It has been re-released, with additional materials, commemorating the 20th... -
'These Dreams of You' by Steve Erickson
Tribune NewspapersZan Nordhoc's unhappy family is certainly unhappy in its own ways in Steve Erickson's new novel "These Dreams of You." For instance, in a third-act twist he suggests that the nanny of the protagonist's adopted daughter (and, potentially, that child's...Tags: Arts and Culture, Book, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Literature
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At Tolliver's barbershop, pondering what 20 years have wrought
It's history they were talking about. The verdict that landed like a slap in the face. The smoke that rose over the city in columns of protest. The rampant looting and savage beatings. They were talking about nothing less than the evolution of a city...
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'Mad Men,' 'Modern Family' take top Emmys
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersIt was repeat victories for ABC's "Modern Family" and AMC's "Mad Men" on Sunday night as they captured the marquee prizes at the 63rd annual Emmy Awards. The sitcom about a deliciously dysfunctional family won its second consecutive trophy for...Tags: Mike & Molly (tv program), Top Chef (tv program), Nurse Jackie (tv show), Jon Stewart, FX (tv channel)
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Margaret Tante Burk dies at 93; host of Round Table West
Margaret Tante Burk, a businesswoman, publicist and book enthusiast who co-founded one of the country's largest literary lunch groups, died Oct. 6 in Los Angeles of natural causes, her son, Harry, said. She was 93.
For 30 years, until 2007, Burk ran...Tags: Diplomacy, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Walter Cronkite, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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