SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Funeral services will be held at First AME Church at 11 a.m. Dec. 15 for Leon Garr, a longtime South Los Angeles businessman who died Dec. 5 at the age of 103. A viewing will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 14 at Angelus Funeral Home, 3875 Crenshaw Blvd. Read More…
By Cynthia Gibson Contributing Writer SOUTH LOS ANGELES — For generations, the church has played an integral part in the lives of African Americans. Families getting dressed in their Sunday finest to attend their neighborhood church for weekly worship services has been a tradition in black communities across the country. But that ritual came to Read More…
