Los Angeles Tribune Founder Almena Lomax Passes Away at 95
Wendell L. Willkie Award-winning journalist Almena Lomax recently died in Pasadena at the age of 95. Lomax was a pioneering black journalist in Southern California, who founded the Los Angeles Tribune and was a leading civil rights activist in the region.
From the AP obit:
In 1941, Lomax borrowed $100 from her future father-in-law to found the Los Angeles Tribune, which operated for two decades and at its peak had a circulation of 25,000.
The newspaper had a reputation for feisty and fearless reporting, with articles about the movie industry and Los Angeles police racism.
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