Chante Coad became the first black female firefighter in the Columbia-Richland Fire Department in 1990. Twenty-five years ...

Wilfred Duncan, Pasadena’s first black firefighter, was among the new arrivals. The civil rights movement coincided with a building boom in Altadena. Slowly, the Black population began to inch ...

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...