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2025 AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH TRAILBLAZERS: A SALUTE TO LABOR

Date
February 22
Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost
Free
Organizer’s Site
oascla.org

Join Mayor Karen Bass; Dr. Lura Daniels-Ball, President, Our Authors Study Club, Inc.; Arturo Chavez, General Manager of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument; Los Angeles City Council President, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Councilmember, Eighth District; Bob Blumenfield, Councilmember, Third District; Curren D. Price, Jr., Councilmember, Ninth District; Heather Hutt, Councilmember, Tenth District; the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA); Yvonne Wheeler, President Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, General Chair, Our Authors Study Club 2025 African American Heritage Month; and, the Our Authors Study Club 2025 African American Heritage Month Committee for an engaging evening at the Pico Hotel.

In keeping with a new tradition that began in 2023, this evening pays tribute to the twenty-six founding families of African American descent who blazed a trail with other brave founders to establish what is now known as El Pueblo de Los Angeles by recognizing Los Angeles’s modern trailblazers with long-standing histories of accomplishment and impact. This year, in keeping with the national theme of African Americans and Labor, we honor a movement so powerful and organic that it brought a diverse coalition of people, professions, and visionaries together to form an organization to provide living wages and rights to security officers in Los Angeles.

 

Free RSVP is required to attend; please call 213.978.0254 to reserve a seat (space is limited).

Getting There: El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, close to the cultural communities of Chinatown, Little Tokyo, and the Arts District. Just North of the U.S. Route 101 Freeway, the site is the historic birthplace of Los Angeles.  There are four nearby parking lots

 

Location

The Pico House, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument
125 Paseo de la Plaza
Los Angeles, 90012 United States
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