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The history of African Americans in Los Angeles includes participation in the culture, education, and politics of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.
The first blacks in Los Angeles were mulattos and Afro-Mexicans who immigrated to California from Sinaloa and Sonora in northwestern Mexico.[1]
Contributions to the city’s culture have particularly been in music, dance, visual arts, stage, and film.
African Americans are concentrated in South Los Angeles; as well as a Black community in suburban cities such as Compton and Inglewood. There are sizable African immigrant communities in Greater Los Angeles. There is also a Louisiana Creole community in Los Angeles County.[2] There is an Ethiopian and Eritrean community in Little Ethiopia.[3] Some are Afro-Latino people from Central and South American countries, especially Garifuna American people. Many were born in Nigeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Belize, Honduras, Panama, and Ghana.[4]
The Black population in Los Angeles has declined since 2017, due to gentrification and more Latinos such as Mexicans and Central Americans moving to their neighborhoods.[5] Many African-Americans from Los Angeles are moving to the Southern United States.[6][7][8] Including partly Black people, Los Angeles proper is 10% Black (estimated 385,000 residents in 2021).[9] Many African Americans have become homeless in the city. African Americans make up 34% of Los Angeles's homeless, while only being 8% of the city's population in 2020.[10]
Blacks in Los Angeles have a lower life expectancy and die younger than other racial groups in Los Angeles.[11]
Los Angeles also has a sizable East African and black immigrant population. Los Angeles has the largest Ethiopian population in the United States after Washington, D.C.. 45,000 Ethiopians live in the Los Angeles area. 6,000 Eritreans live in Los Angeles.[12]
- ^ "Early Los Angeles—An Afro-Latino Town". February 15, 2017.
- ^ Prud'Homme-Cranford, Rain; Barthé, Darryl; Jolivétte, Andrew J. (March 22, 2022). Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295749501.
- ^ Barkan, Elliott Robert (2013). Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781598842197.
- ^ Faith-based Social Engagement in 20th Century Los Angeles: A Historic Overview
- ^ Patel, Jugal K.; Arango, Tim; Singhvi, Anjali; Huang, Jon (December 23, 2019). "Black, Homeless and Burdened by L.A.'s Legacy of Racism". The New York Times.
- ^ "This is a Black Neighborhood. You Aren't Black. | There Goes the Neighborhood".
- ^ For Many Black People, L.A. is No Longer the Last Best Place to Live
- ^ "Still looking for a 'Black mecca,' the new Great Migration". The Washington Post. January 14, 2022. Archived from the original on June 1, 2023.
- ^ "DP05ACS DEMOGRAPHIC AND HOUSING ESTIMATES". U.S. Census Bureau.
- ^ Lopez, Steve (June 13, 2020). "Column: Black people make up 8% of L.A. population and 34% of its homeless. That's unacceptable". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
- ^ May-Suzuki, Christian (April 24, 2023). "West Los Angeles News - L.A. County's "State of Black Los Angeles" Report Highlights Disparities in Community". Westside Voice. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
- ^ Reimers, David (August 27, 2023). Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814775356.