In 2006, RJ Smith, author of “The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Last African American Renaissance,” would describe June 7 as a pivotal moment in the riots.

Paquette joined them again with a suit and Santa Claus tie – and a box of 40 black bow ties for students who wanted to wear them. That day, about a third of the school’s 276 students joined in ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian will soon display the suit worn by Chadwick Boseman in Black Panther.According to the Smithsonian, the suit will be ...