Los Angeles Sentinel

Los Angeles Sentinel
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Independent
Publisher Danny J. Bakewell
Founded 1933
Headquarters 3800 Crenshaw Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90008
United States
Website lasentinel.net

The Los Angeles Sentinel is a weekly African-American-owned newspaper published in Los Angeles, California. The paper boasts of reaching 125,000 readers as of 2004, making it one of the oldest, largest and most influential African-American newspaper in the Western United States. The Sentinel was also noted for their coverage of the changing African American daily life experience in the post-1992 Los Angeles Riots era. [1]

The Sentinel was founded in 1933 by Col. Leon H. Washington Jr. for black readers.[2] Since that time, the newspaper has been considered a staple of black life in Los Angeles. The paper mainly focuses on and thus enjoys most of its circulation in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, Inglewood and Compton.

On March 17, 2004, the Sentinel was purchased and came under the direction of real estate developer and community activist Danny Bakewell.

Notable people

  • Robert C. Farrell (born 1936), journalist and member of the Los Angeles City Council, 1974–91

References

  1. ↑ Thornton, Michael C. “Meaningful Dialogue? The Los Angeles Sentinel's Depiction of Black and Asian American Relations, 1993-2000.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 42, no. 8, 2011, pp. 1275–1298. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41304584.
  2. ↑ Hodder, Kevin (2017). "Washington Jr., Leon H. (1907-1974)". The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
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