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Leimert Park (/ l ə ˈ m ɜːr t /; lə-MURT) is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. Developed in the 1920s as a mainly residential community, it features Spanish Colonial Revival homes and tree-lined streets. [1] The Life Magazine/Leimert Park House is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. [2]
There is a real fear that Leimert Park’s tree-lined streets — where, for generations, Black Angelenos have gone to protest and to celebrate, and to engage in everyday expressions of culture ...
The major commercial corridor for the Crenshaw district, Hyde Park and Leimert Park is known as "the heart of African American commerce in Los Angeles". [17] [18] [19] The project was conceived to celebrate the Crenshaw business district as a black community amid fears of gentrification with the arrival of the K Line light rail and the NFL Stadium in Inglewood. [16]
The South L.A. neighborhood is being remade as a Black-owned corridor for culture. But last week's chaotic Juneteenth festival shows it won't be easy.
With $2 million from L.A. County, four business owners finally have enough to buy their building. It shouldn't be this hard to build Black wealth.
African Americans started migrating to the district in the mid 1960s, and by the early 1970s later were the majority. [4] In the 1970s, Crenshaw, Leimert Park and neighboring areas together had formed one of the largest African-American communities in the western United States. In 2006, the population of Crenshaw was around 27,600.
Issa Rae's Insecure tv series season 3 (2018), episode "Fresh-Like" includes a scene in Leimert Park outside Eso Won Books. [7]Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story, a 2007 mystery novel by actor Blair Underwood and writers Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, includes mentions of recognizable Los Angeles features such as the restaurant chain Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles and Eso Won Books.
James Fugate, co-owner of Leimert Park's venerable Black bookstore, said the storefront is closing at year's end but will stay open online. Eso Won, L.A.'s beloved Black-owned bookstore, will be ...