Black history landmark in Los Angeles, California
Leon H. Washington Jr. founded the Sentinel in 1933 with the slogan "Don't spend your money where you can't work," and it became the most influential Black newspaper in the western United States, reaching about 125,000 readers. Danny Bakewell bought it in 2004 and still runs it out of the Crenshaw Boulevard building. The paper's offices sit on the Destination Crenshaw corridor, and its Taste of Soul street festival draws hundreds of thousands to Crenshaw every October. The building itself is a fixture of the boulevard rather than a museum.