He was just the first one they caught on tape. “Rodney King was not the first person to be beat by the police in Los Angeles. It’s not a story that we hadn’t been telling for years before,” Bakewell Jr.
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“It took a Black man to be murdered on TV for many people to see it. The paper covers proud moments and painful moments like the murder of George Floyd. Since the first paper was published, editors and reporters have built a legacy of interviewing L.A.’s most influential leaders and capturing major community events that bring people together. “He basically put out this paper and said, ‘Don’t spend your money where you can’t work.’ And as a result they had him arrested.” “He started out and he was arrested,” Bakewell Jr. Colonel Leon Washington was the original founder. “But we try to tell our story in such a way that is inspiring and truthful to everybody that we often identify from.”īakewell Media has owned the paper for 20 years but the paper was first published 87 years ago. We have different opinions, we see things differently,” Bakewell Jr. “African Americans, we’re not monolithic. says the goal has always been to reflect the diversity of L.A.’s Black residents. The Sentinel prints 30,000 papers a week and has 150,000 readers weekly, both in print and online. “We say in the masthead of our paper ‘the voice of our community speaking for itself,’” said Bakewell Sr. says eight words always remain on the front page of the paper. Editors and reporters have built a legacy of interviewing L.A.’s most influential leaders and capturing major community events that bring people togetherĮxecutive Publisher and Chairman Danny Bakewell Sr.
The Los Angeles Sentinel has been covering the local community since the 1930s.Black news publications have been chronicling Los Angeles’ Black history for decades.
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