The city of Los Angeles is moving forward with a monument to the Anti-Chinese Massacre of 1871. How this monument will be evocative of a new way of how we think about monuments. latimes.com/entertainment-… As part of my research I dug into a pair of reports on monuments: “Past Due” by LA’s Civic Memory Working Group and Monument Lab’s “National Monument Audit.”

The #BlackatLAT action has drawn a lot of attention to the struggles faced by Black journalists in our newsroom. But I also want to highlight their work, which is inspiring to me as a journalist: At random, I’ll start with this memorable 2017 story by former entertainment writer @TrevellAnderson, who dismembered the Hollywood trope that Black films don’t do well internationally. latimes.com/entertainment/…