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Article: Los Angeles Sentinel turns 75
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- New Pittsburgh Courier
- Article date:
- January 23, 2008
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LOS ANGELES (NNPA)-This year the Los Angeles Sentinel will show the world what it has accomplished over the last 75 years and its plans for the future.
In 2008, the Los Angeles Sentinel turns 75 and plans to share its accomplishments and achievements with the world, and what the future holds for the number one Black newspaper in the country in the 21st century.
The watchwords of the paper in 1933 were "The People's Paper" and those words still hold true today, especially this election year.
In looking back through the Sentinel's history, one can readily understand why Col. Leon Washington founded and published the paper when he did. In one of the early editions, the Sentinel was described ...