Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
New York Magazine19d
These Brands Are Donating Proceeds to Los Angeles Wildfire-Relief Funds
Over 12,000 homes, businesses, schools, and other structures have been lost in the Los Angeles wildfires with only 22 percent of the Palisades and 55 percent of the Eaton fires contained as of ...
Wall Street Journal20d
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
Some 81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles County. Median home values for Altadena’s Black households were $961,000 in 2023, compared with $677,700 ...
Mansion Global20d
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
Some 81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles County ... with its bay window and white picket fence, from her parents, who were among the first Black ...
The Independent21d
Black Dahlia: the unsolved murder that transfixed Los Angeles
It led the Los Angeles ... Steve also found portraits by the surrealist artist Man Ray of a woman with dark, curly hair. He thought to himself, “My God, that looks like the Black Dahlia ...
El País in English22d
A portrait of the Trump administration: white, young, ultra-rich men from Florida
And if we were to draw a portrait of the image, it would be a robotic one: that of an ultra-rich white ... by the Los Angeles fires. The new administration also follows the most diverse in history, ...
Yahoo! Sports22d
How the Los Angeles fires will (and won’t) impact the 2028 Olympics
The fires have blazed across tens of thousands of acres, swallowing homes, devouring communities and scarring Los Angeles for 10 unending days. They left an ashy trail of destruction, toxins and ...
Scientific American24d
Here’s How Climate Change Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires
As Greta Cazzaniga, a climate scientist at the ClimaMeter and the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute in France, said in a recent press statement, “the Los Angeles wildfires have shown how multiple ...
National Geographic news24d
What the images of Los Angeles's fires don’t show
The Los Angeles fires are a soul-crushing and city-defining disaster. Callous voices have called it a city-destroying event, but they don’t know Los Angeles very well. I have friends who lost ...
Business Insider24d
Photos show Los Angeles neighborhoods reduced to rubble as deadly wildfires continue to burn
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Parts of Los Angeles are still burning from multiple wildfires that have ravaged over 40,000 acres and killed at least 25 people. More than ...
New York Post24d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...