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Column: Is Kevin de León's push to honor Black L.A. history heartfelt, or cynical?
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoLos Angeles Councilmember Kevin de León arrives for a news conference in Pershing Square on...
Kevin de León seeks to rename Pershing Square for Biddy Mason, ex-slave and unsung L.A. hero
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoL.A. Councilmember Kevin de León will propose the renaming of Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, a...
Patt Morrison: Confederate sentiment in Southern California ran deeper than you might know
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoThis week marks the anniversary of Robert E. Lee's surrender near the end of the Civil War. Southern...
Patt Morrison: Take a walk through L.A.'s spectacular, neglected and paved-over cemeteries
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoCemeteries -- grand and all-but-forgotten -- dot our landscape. Here are their stories -- and the...
Patt Morrison: How California got its good name — a 1500s novel and scores of fascinating people
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoThe word "California" was first put to printed page in the 1500s — long before the U.S. state...
Germans. Hoosiers. Canadians! How they shaped the Southern California we know today
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months ago'Colonies' started coming to California not long after statehood. They were associations of...
7 things you didn't know were invented by Black women
INSIDER via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoValerie Thomas, the inventor of the illusion transmitter, and Patricia Bath, the brains behind the...
This App Could Change How Kids Learn About Historical Heroes
Time via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoA monument of Gaspar Yanga, created in augmented reality through the app Kinfolk, sits in Brooklyn....
Review: How the West was won — and lost — by women: A new history revises the record
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoKatie Hickman's "Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West" features pioneer wives, trafficked immigrants and a heroic Black midwife, among others.
An L.A. Neighborhood That Has It All—And You Probably Haven’t Visited
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Courtesy of the West Adams Heritage...
