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H.H. Brookins dies at 86; pastor was influential black leader

2012-05-24 00:00:00

The Rev. Hamel Hartford Brookins, an influential bishop and former pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles who became a political power broker, civil rights leader and mentor to former Mayor Tom Bradley, the Rev. Jesse...

Willis Edwards dies at 66; L.A. civil rights activist

2012-07-15 00:00:00

Willis Edwards, a civil rights and political activist in Los Angeles' African American community and the former leader of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch of the NAACP who was a controversial force behind its entertainment industry Image Awards, has...

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney live in a different America

2012-02-03 06:09:00

Donald Trump has endorsed Mitt Romney, which proves that two rich guys can spend months insulting each other and still come around to the realization that they share one deep and overriding interest: money. Sharing a stage with Trump on Thursday in Las...

Southern California Close-Ups: From West Hollywood to Wilshire

2011-10-30 00:00:00

Set an out-of-towner loose to roam the Los Angeles area between West Hollywood and Koreatown and what can you expect? A food-truck overdose, perhaps. Or the bold suggestion that we extend our subway system westward. (Hey, we're working on it.) Or maybe...

Book review: 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro

2012-05-06 00:00:00

The Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Alfred A. Knopf: 736 pp., $35 "The Passage of Power," the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, encompasses the period of LBJ's deepest humiliation and...

Nicholas Katzenbach dies at 90; attorney general under Johnson

2012-05-10 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the...

C. David Heymann dies at 67; controversial bestselling biographer

2012-05-14 00:00:00

C. David Heymann, a bestselling biographer whose titillating accounts of famous lives often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled because of factual disputes, has died. He was 67. Heymann...

Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street

2012-05-16 16:35:42

'These Dreams of You' by Steve Erickson

2012-03-23 00:00:00

Zan Nordhoc's unhappy family is certainly unhappy in its own ways in Steve Erickson's new novel "These Dreams of You." For instance, in a third-act twist he suggests that the nanny of the protagonist's adopted daughter (and, potentially, that child's...

At Tolliver's barbershop, pondering what 20 years have wrought

2012-04-14 20:35:00

It's history they were talking about. The verdict that landed like a slap in the face. The smoke that rose over the city in columns of protest. The rampant looting and savage beatings. They were talking about nothing less than the evolution of a city...

'Mad Men,' 'Modern Family' take top Emmys

2011-09-18 20:51:00

It was repeat victories for ABC's "Modern Family" and AMC's "Mad Men" on Sunday night as they captured the marquee prizes at the 63rd annual Emmy Awards. The sitcom about a deliciously dysfunctional family won its second consecutive trophy for...

Margaret Tante Burk dies at 93; host of Round Table West

2011-10-13 00:00:00

Margaret Tante Burk, a businesswoman, publicist and book enthusiast who co-founded one of the country's largest literary lunch groups, died Oct. 6 in Los Angeles of natural causes, her son, Harry, said. She was 93. For 30 years, until 2007, Burk ran...

The plot: The show set the tone for a comedic and often heartbreaking commentary on the history and social mores of the late '60s and '70s, introducing us to Winnie, Kevin Arnold's friend and first love, as her family learns her brother was killed in Vietnam.

2013-02-04 13:58:00

Environmentalist, 58

2012-05-25 10:51:00

The Summer Olympics were held in October to escape the searing heat of a Mexico City summer, but it was political heat that marked these games. Martin Luther King Jr.

2012-05-23 00:00:00