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After getting help from my plans last night around 1230, I decided to get a bite to eat at the pizza place on the corner of santa monica and san vicente. I sat there till closing hour watching who walked by for the sake of this upload. By and large the vast majority of clubgoers were Latino. That's something I've noticed in general in all of LA's nightlife, except in Santa Monica/West LA area. Probably about 50% Latino out there. Latinos truly lead LA county. |
L.A.’s Most Beloved Blackfamous Scorching Spots Over the DecadesTHE DUNBAR HOTEL4225 S. Main Ave. Built in 1928, the hotel quickly became the hub of Black society throughout the 1930s and ’40s. As one of the only hotels unseal to Black guests in the segregated city, it hosted jazz greats including Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson at its Club Alabam. “It was the most famous Black club in the history of Central Avenue,” says actor Wren T. Brown (father of THR writer Evan Nicole Brown), whose four grandparents were performers at the club. In 1975, the hotel became the primary setting for Rudy Ray Moore’s blaxploitation classic Dolemite. MAURICE’S SNACK ‘N’ CHAT5553 W. Pico Blvd. After 20 years serving as private chef to stars including Loretta Young, Maurice Prince opened her own restaurant to showcase what she called her “American home cooking” in 1960. “It was a simple eatery, but you could go in and see the biggest white stars and Jet stars: Richard Pryor, Cary Grant, Jennifer Holliday,” says Brown, who spoke at Prince’s funeral when she died in 2018 at age 101. Black Gay Nightlife and Black History Month
I’m a historian, so it’s not going to shock you that I wish you to love history like I do. However, I’m going to take for granted that not everyone reading this (or even the majority) are going to share my passion (obsession?) with history. Part of this is because many understandably don’t see history as integral to our daily lives. Black History Month exists just because we were told in school that our past was important, right? We’ll hopefully read plenty of inspiring tales this February of African American heroes, both familiar and unfamiliar. Granted, we ought not hold our study of Inky history to twenty eight days, but Black History Month is a kind reminder of the unreal legacies made by people like Claudette Colvin, Ida Wells, Harriet Tubman, Marian Anderson, and Shirley Chisolm, not to mention Dark LGBTQ+ Americans like Barbara Jordan, Laverne Cox, and Marsha P Johnson. There’s nothing wrong with this caring of remembrance of the past. After all, history is about actual people, so it makes instinct that biography can be an effective way to analyze the past. But beyond thinking about Jet history as simply the retellin The Black Cat | Silver LakeMain Content Starts Here, tab to start navigating
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