LA-based jewelry designer Rachel Quinn has teamed up with Gemfields to tell a bittersweet story of love, with 10% of proceeds going to LA fire support.
Or at least they did until the fire. The five-acre green space, named after Charles White, a local Black artist, was also scorched by the flames. Author Octavia Butler – best known for penning ...
Ned Pettus, retired Columbus public safety director and Columbus’ first and only Black fire chief, said Jackson was a friend, a mentor, and an inspiration. As a young Black firefighter recruit ...
And I still can’t believe it.” The loss of Pizza of Venice to the Eaton fire is one tile in a new, shattered mosaic: a topography of Black-owned homes and businesses with a reach that extends ...
The Eaton Fire, which is still raging, has swept through this diverse hub for the Black middle class. So far, it has destroyed 7,000 structures in Altadena, a town of 40,000 bordering Pasadena and ...
On January 7, the Eaton Fire ignited in the nearby mountains ... The community started to take shape in the 1960s. Large numbers of Black families had left the US South and moved westwards ...
Julius “Joe” Cherry, Sacramento’s second Black fire chief, spent more than 30 years as a firefighter, retiring in 2007 after working his way up through the ranks. Cherry served as chief of the ...
The community is also home to hundreds of Black families, whose homes were ravaged by the Eaton Fire one week ago. "You've got three generations," said Altadena resident Pauline Daniels.
Los Angeles fire bosses deployed just a fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five of the 40 available fire ...
KEARNS, Utah (KUTV) — An officer at the scene of an early morning fire in Kearns was struck by ... Police said there is black ice present on the roadway and asked drivers to slow down in the ...
The Black community in Altadena, Los Angeles County, has been devastated by the uncontrolled Eaton Fire, which has scorched over 10,600 acres and claimed over 20 lives. Residents and supporters ...