His career began in 1968, with “Angelface,” a play he staged in Jonas Mekas’s Film-Makers’ Cinematheque, which had been closed to film projection by an unsympathetic fire department.

Of Altadena’s roughly 42,800 residents, only 18% are Black, down from 43% in 1980, according to census data. The median home value in Altadena from 2019 to 2023 was over more than $1 million and ...

The monthlong celebration will hold even more meaning this year for residents in Altadena’s historically Black neighborhoods. On Jan. 7, the Eaton fire devastated the unincorporated town north ...

A new UCLA study found that the Eaton fire disproportionally impacted Altadena’s Black community and that systemic inequality and redlining contributed to fire vulnerability. The study ...

Data from the study indicates that over 60% of Black households in Altadena were located within the Eaton Fire perimeter, and nearly half of them were destroyed or severely damaged. Comparatively ...

A study published Tuesday by UCLA researchers indicates the Eaton Fire disproportionately affected Black residents in Altadena. The research comes from a new data brief from the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche ...

Of the households owned or rented by Black families in the Eaton Fire zone, nearly half were destroyed or majorly damaged compared to 37% of non-Black households, according to a new UCLA report.

It was a foothold in generational prosperity. Black residents were disproportionately affected by the fire that ravaged Altadena, Calif.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York Times Supported by ...

For three years, the Central District property has been at the center of a heated legal battle that has pitted different ...

Benefits for MusiCares, Black L.A. Relief and Recovery Fund, CCF Wildfire Recovery Fund and more feature DJs, music and burlesque ...

The Soap Fire, burning near Black Canyon City, reached 100% containment on Monday, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center. The fire was reported Dec. 15, burning about three ...