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Oct. 28, 2009
Olympics
Looking back at the journey L.A. track stars Quincy Watts and Kevin Young embarked on their way to winning gold medals in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Aug. 16, 2022
California
High school students in Los Angeles are much more likely than those elsewhere in the U.S. to have witnessed violence, a burden that falls disproportionately on young Black Angelenos, a Times analysis shows.
June 16, 2023
Television
In what seems to be a historic year for diversity on television, increasing the number of people of color in Hollywood continues to be at the center of conversation.
Oct. 27, 2015
Pop & Hiss
Sept. 3, 2010
Music
A viewer can’t stroll more than a few steps at the Broad Museum’s current exhibition “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983” without encountering a painting, photo or sculpture that doesn’t include an image of, or allusion to, music.
May 30, 2019
Books
“You know the real reason you do a book like this?
Nov. 16, 2008
World & Nation
A white lawman has long ruled over the black majority in Florida’s Gadsden County. Now he’s being challenged by a black police chief, and an unfamiliar tension has taken hold.
Sept. 5, 2000
Movies
Jan. 26, 2018
‘Skin Game’ set a comic precedent to the under-fire ‘Desmond Pfeiffer,’ but sensibilities about slavery have changed.
Oct. 16, 1998