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Neale Stokes, Senior Librarian, Digital Content Team

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The Liberator: Librarians Work to Preserve Early 20th-Century L.A. African American Newspaper

February 23, 2018

The Liberator is an early 20th-century Los Angeles African American newspaper, whose owner and editor, Jefferson Lewis Edmonds, was formerly enslaved and spent twenty years in bondage before Emancipation.


Couple at Nightclub, 1962

Menus of New Year's Past

December 28, 2017

What will you eat this New Year's Eve? However we plan to celebrate the new year, Angelenos have a lot of dinner options this December 31st—from buck-fifty street tacos to a $285 tasting menu at Spago.


Section of Historic Map of Los Angeles

Stories From the Map Cave: The Tongva

November 21, 2017

Before Los Angeles, there was Yangna, home to the Tongva people, Native Americans who numbered at least 5,000 in the Los Angeles Basin before the arrival of Europeans.


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