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![Mohammed Mubarak theGrio.com](https://thegrio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image0-1-e1647028195411.jpeg?w=428)
Artist-activist Mohammed Mubarak honors historical Black and Los Angeles-based figures through murals throughout Hollywood.
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Based in the West Adams district, the collectively run art space operates with the ethos 'come one, come all.'
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“Black people have had hand-me-down housing since we have been in America,” said Matthews, who is working on changing that…
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Benjamin designs virtual reality spaces through 88 Ideas, his creative design company, named after his South Central L.A. streets.
![Sunny Jones thegrio.com](https://thegrio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SunnyJones2.2.Provided-scaled.jpg?w=428)
Los Angeles realtor Sunny Jones is helping African Americans in her community become homeowners despite gentrification.
![Celestina Bishop thegrio.com](https://thegrio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Untitled-design-32.png?w=428)
Celestina Bishop decided to take action after finding the grounds of Woodlawn Cemetery abandoned where her family is buried.
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Female entrepreneurs Whitney Beatty and Ebony Andersen opened Josephine and Billie's, a cannabis retail store in Los Angeles.
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Afi’shabaka and Wolley Ross are helping raise the health consciousness of the community with Baba’s Vegan Cafe in South Central,…
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1010 Wine and Events recently opened in Inglewood and is owned by two sisters who understand the need to destress…
![LaTisha Nixon and son Gemmel Moore; Ed Buck, theGrio.com](https://thegrio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Untitled-design-90.png?w=428)
Multimillionaire Edward Buck was found guilty on nine counts involving the meth overdose deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean.