Laura Dominguez
Laura Dominguez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Southern California, where she studies race, heritage, and place-making in the American West. She previously worked in advocacy and education for the Los Angeles Conservancy and San Francisco Heritage and is a founding board member of Latinos in Heritage Conservation.
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When Golden State Mutual Life Insurance commissioned artists Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff to design a home office building, the duo traveled across California to retrace the steps of the region's Black explorers, settlers and leaders. Their mission? To design a headquarters for GSM that looked to California's future and recovered an erased Black past.
Plummer Park reveals essential layers in West Hollywood’s history.
Throughout its 18-year run, The Woman’s Building cultivated an experimental space for women from around the world to explore ideas in feminist theory and sexuality through art.
The Arlington Heights club is believed to be the first large-scale discotheque in the U.S. to serve the black LGBTQ community.
On Feb. 11, 1967, a demonstration against an LAPD raid on the Black Cat bar in Silver Lake made LGBTQ history.