"'Favorite' feels like the wrong adjective, but my story on the Eaton fire and how its Black community - one of the largest in L.A. County - was impacted, is the most important one that I wrote this year,"
"I spoke to a handful of Black restaurant owners and chefs about their ties to the community, including the Little Red Hen Coffee Shop, a soul food cafe in its third generation of ownership that was founded in 1972. The article demonstrates how integral Altadena is to the larger fabric of Black Los Angeles, and why so many from all over felt compelled to visit the area to offer direct support."
"After seeing the damage done in Altadena, so close to my own home, I felt it was important to give a more personal view of the shops and restaurants that were destroyed,"
Eaton and Palisades fires in early January profoundly affected Los Angeles neighborhoods and local businesses. Altadena's Black community, one of the largest in L.A. County, sustained damage that disrupted longstanding institutions and multigenerational establishments such as the Little Red Hen Coffee Shop, a soul-food cafe founded in 1972. The fires halted momentum among a new generation of small-business owners and imperiled shops and restaurants central to neighborhood life. Substantial direct support and visits followed as people from across the region responded to the destruction and its community impact.
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