Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton led a memorial service for Eaton Fire victims to call on leaders to support the historic Black neighborhoods in Altadena.
Altadena, population nearly 42,000, is the town where the Rev ... It was his home that King visited on a Friday evening in February 1960 to persuade Jones to join his legal team in Alabama. Although ...
Families of color, making up over half of Altadena, have bought homes and kept them for generations. The Black homeownership rate exceeds 80%, almost double the national rate.
Now, all that remains of Masjid Al Taqwa — the first mosque in the Altadena-Pasadena area — are soot, ash and charred twisted skeletons of chairs. A sign proclaiming the mosque’s name stands ...
Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, will lead the service at the First AME Church in Pasadena, where he will be joined by national civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is ...