The California African American Museum showcases a positive look at the resilient and vibrant Black community of Altadena, ...

Altadena’s Black community had been shrinking even before the fire Altadena’s Black population has dropped to 18%, down from 43% in 1980. Experts attribute this to gentrification.

There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California, Erion Taylor remembers. Instead, she got a text from her neighborhood group chat ...

Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last. Jake Bittle. Updated Tue, January 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM UTC. 7 min read.

In Altadena, 61% of Black households were located in the fire zone, according to a study by UCLA. Altadena was a bastion for Black homeownership, but the wildfires have placed Black residents and ...

Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have erased that legacy.

California wildfires devastate Altadena: How one man tried to save his block By Chad Terhune and Fred Greaves January 12, 2025 3:56 PM UTC Updated January 12, 2025 ...

In front of him were the burnt remains of a building in Altadena, California’s, business district, which was destroyed in the Eaton Canyon fire in January. ...

Kevin Devine stands in front of his destroyed home in the Altadena area in Los Angeles, California. Devine and thousands of other lost their homes to the Eaton Fire.

Most residents of middle-class Altadena could get fire insurance, but that is likely to change as residents rebuild and face price hikes. Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell ...