"The Black Beverly Hills" -- Mini Documentary
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- Black Beverly Hills from 1925 to present day. The black beverly hills neighborhoods, including Ladera Heights, View Park Winsor Hills, and Baldwin Hills are the richest black neighborhoods in the world. In the beginning, these three neighborhoods were all once all-white owned and denied blacks the right to reside. However, in the mid 60's, the neighborhood experience white flight, bringing in more and more successful black families. By the 70s, all three neighborhoods were named the "Black Beverly Hills," due to the fact that many black celebrities, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and doctors moved in.
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THE SECOND DOCUMENTARY IS NOW AVAILABLE! ENJOY!
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Well done and the same thing is happening here in New Orleans which has created a ton of problems, because people are being pushed out with high taxes and rent. politicians can screw up everything.
My grandparents were the first black family on their block in 1960 in Windsor Hills. Our family still owns the house. I used to take walks with my grandmother and she showed me where Ray Charles, Tina Turner, etc lived. In Baldwin Vista, where I grew up, we had a few people, too. ;) You did a great job with this. It's sad how much things are changing. Thank you for putting it together.
Yes please dont sell your house black people
The fact that this needs to be said is sad. Really pathetic.
Do successful black folks need to be taught how to maintain wealth? Sad.
As an upcoming Black Nurse, I’m coming for my piece of the pie.
Hurry!
get the Entire pie
Thank you. I enjoyed this since I was the second Black Family on my block in View Park in 1964. Nostalgic.
Are you rich?
@@arielpuma4512 At heart!
Don’t sell your houses
No choicd
I’m Jewish and I’m going to be buying up all the houses in ladera heights! We’re transforming this neighborhood to an upper class white/Jewish neighborhood. We’re going to relocate the blacks to Inglewood and Compton and Long Beach.
@@FloridaMan786You are a troll.
@@FloridaMan786anti-semite troll
@@FloridaMan786 😅 U just want a reaction. Don't make Kayne right 💯😁
Happy you did this documentary to preserve our history. I've personally lived in Baldwin Hills/Baldwin Village all my life. Over 28 years now and I still live there till this day. Ive been seeing all the gentrification take place now currently. The neighborhood is definitely mixed. I've been seeing asian and whites moving in literally. The neighborhood has definitely changed for the better but I want my black people to continue to benefit. So, don't selll your houses and if you do sell it, go ahead and sell it to an African American person, and buy lots of property in that area too! Thank you for a job well done on this video.
It’s not really gentrification if it was a nice neighborhood to begin with. Sorry your neighborhood is becoming more diverse. Get over it.
Not gentrified just diverse.
@@rph8704 You had to comment. For what exactly?
@@40ShortyTx why do you hate diversity? Are you a racist?
The problem with other people saying "get over it" in regards to non-blacks moving into the neighborhood is that I don't think they are fully aware of the problems blacks have faced when attempting to buy nice houses in nice neighborhoods elsewhere even if they had enough money. (Discrimination by realtors.) Because of this bad history and the non-blacks trying to keep blacks out of "their" nice neighborhoods (and trying to keep them in various slums all over the US), it shouldn't take a genius to understand why someone would recommend selling houses exclusively to other black people.
Because even in 2022 it is well-documented that many Americans still can't grasp the concept of black people's civil rights and such...
Great nostalgic film...I wish it were longer. I was born and lived in the Baldwin Hills/ Baldwin Village/ "The Jungle" area until the mid 90s. I remember visiting my aunt's house in Baldwin Hills and the area was so beautiful, I could literally see the Hollywood sign from the dining room window.
Thanks for your comment! A second (20-30 minute) documentary will be uploaded in about a month, that will feature residences talking about their personal experiences, and opinions of the neighborhood changing. Stay tuned!
I just moved to Ladera and I plan on buying a property here with my beautiful black family. Yes, one way to beat gentrification is to not sell and pass your house down as generational wealth to your family.
and support black businesses.
Serious question. What is your occupation/career? I don’t understand how people can afford to live in that area, let alone California period. I would love to live there but I can’t buy another home that’s a million dollar house that’s dated, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
@@Welcometothenow
Well you get paid more in CA to offset the high cost of living. Also, 2 incomes are better than 1. I own a staffing business and have a job doing HR in tech. I feel you on the dated homes, the land is the investment.
We can be selfish! Jealousy is common in our race.
I stumbled on this and I really enjoyed it. I have been on Zillow looking at the area and SO many homes are up for auction and are in foreclosure or pre foreclosure. There are a lot of things happening. There is a generation of people loaing their homes and its heartbreaking. This was great. Thank You
MY AUNT AND UNCLE LIVE IN BALDWIN HILLS SINCE 1968. 👈🏾💯💯
awesome
im from north louisiana and im coming summer 2024
Well done! Moving to Baldwin hills The end of May 2019!
how do you like it so far?
Welcome to the neighborhood.
im from north louisiana.. and im coming summer 2024
I love the documentary. I lived in Baldwin Hills for 10 years, but had to move due to an "arm" real estate loan. I moved to Texas, but would love to come back to California and figure out a way to buy again. I know the housing prices are through the roof now. It's unfortunate for those of us who would love to come back.
Gentrification is in full effect though. We need not to sell our houses. If we do we must sell it to our own. As well as buy property within this area.
The same laws blacks used to force themselves into white neighborhoods will be used against them.
@@hse6144 White people left because they hated Black people. Black people are leaving because they are being pushed out. Why can't Black folks have nice things? Let them have this neighborhood, Lord knows they deserve much more.
@@maryb3722 they’re not being pushed out tho if they’re already rich. They selling they cribs ya feel me?
@@hse6144 You mean the same way White People forced themselves into Harlem NY?
@@maryb3722 Thats a fact
Preservation of history is the key and should be shared. You have been able to convey the story of these three communities moving through time effortlessly, this is coming from someone born and raised in Los Angeles.
My grandfather was a successful doctor and live in view park back in the 50s-60s.
I really enjoyed this. Just moved to LA and I enjoy it every time I’m in Baldwin Hills.... I’m black... it’s where I want to live once I get a car. Hopefully it’s still black by the time that happens.
Whew the way its lookin idk i work in Ladera and its def fading fast
Shamia really that’s so sad to hear
Shamia, I read an article, and from a lady that was a Los Angeles native- she said that Ladera heights was located the furthest to the west, and that Baldwin hills and VP/ WH were a little closer to the hoods, thereby making Ladera heights perceived a little more desirable, for some looking to buy in that area.
Go to Africa if you want blacks only. This country is for everyone
Nothing in L.A. as far as property is all black, common sense.
Awesome documentary! Thank you for helping preserve our history
You should be in prison for using a woman picture.
Great video! Thank you so much for putting this together.
Love this Edit. Been through that neighborhood and the houses and yards are always so well kept.
pass your house down to someone you love keep it in the family, same thing is happening in the Michigan Park and Brookland area of DC, DC ain't Chocolate City no more, White are back in full force.
Get over it bigot
Ahshfbwbwjcn AJ we. Eh White people were bigoted and left. It’s our space now why do they need to come back?
Ellise Walton it’s not your space. You only own a house if you own it. I know you want segregation as you’re a racist bigot but we’ve moved past that.
@@rph8704 STFU
@@rph8704 It's ALWAYS racists like YOU who have the audacity to get offended that others don't value whites above themselves. #youcanthandlethetruth
How in the Hell this individual get the perfect soundtrack,all my life I've learned about this neighborhood,from my parents they lived off stocker in 1965/66' moved back to Washington DC,shortly after I was born,So the music in this
Docu Hits home for me, particularly Ain't No Mountain high Enough"in 1980/86' I was fortunate enough move there with my dad& sister, after my Mom Passed,then Got the Full experience,Wow good And bad, but it left me in awe of the place and people,I truly miss it, now back in DC,I try to tell my Kids about this Place!!
You did a great job with this film 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👌🏾
Thank you for sharing this.
You have an amazing gift and I am looking forward to all the work you produce!
Very nice video. Brought back many memories for a man who grew up in the Baldwin Hills Village Green from 1943 to 1960. I was at the grand opening of the Baldwin Hills theater in 1949 where I met Roy Rogers. On Sundays very well-dressed blacks went to the Baldwin theater for the evening shows. Otherwise, as you know the area was predominantly white. I was working at the rodeo Bowl December 14th, 1963 when the Baldwin Hills dam broke. I rescued an elderly man with my surfboard. I met Del Shannon, song Runaway, in Santa Barbara in 1983 where he performed the song at an AA convention at the Santa Barbara fairgrounds.
Thanks for the memories.
Awesome and Informative Thanks ! I live in Baldwin Village and it's Beautiful !
Good video, I loved learning the history
New subscriber!! I’m so glad your video was in my recommended videos!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you!
Good job... enjoyed watching
Pass your houses down to your family.
That is the only lyrics way to go keep it in the family
Or sell it to only other Black Black families or people.
@@EbonyJoneskuye what about Fijians and Indigenous populations?
Have friends who've lived up in View Park for the last 30 years. Really enjoy going up there. It's true to its name, the views of the Los Angeles basin are fantastic, especially that of downtown L.A.
great video!
White Flight is one of the best things to happen to us, because as much as I don’t like segregation, I love the whole idea of us having our own neighborhood. Shoot, we need our own country again.
In other words, you like segregation. FYI, you always have the option to move to Liberia which was a colony made by former enslaved African Americans.
Ahshfbwbwjcn AJ we. Eh Most of the population aren’t African American there anymore so why move somewhere foreign?
Lincoln gave the freed slaves their own country, it’s called Liberia.
@@hse6144.. Lincoln didn't give the victims of slavery shit! The whole Earth is returning back to the melanated People, and this land which you call America belongs to the Hebrews who are refered to as African Americans, and the process of repossession has started! Now!.....You go! Crawl back under yer rock and stay delusional!
''Our own neighborhood'',so you do like segregation as long as your side is wealthy and economically stable as the other.People with your outlook are vermin to the human race,''shoot,we need our own country again'',NO YOU DONT,just like Natives shouldnt take over all of america again.History is history,what happens happens,if whites decide to move to black areas,fine,the issue is them making the hosuing market unfair,nobody should give a shit the race of people moving in.Should people know of the history of the area and not undermine the black influence and success of it,yes they should,but thats all it should be.You dont form relations based on race,or your just as bad as the people who opressed you in the first place.
Luv luv luv this FLASHBACK OF MY PAST Crenshaw District 1974/ Presently LIVING IN View Park,CA 2019 /GOT My piece of the Pie!!!
Make another one that goes slower so we can read the headlines
You cute ❤️
@@kabeyz F
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THAT'S,. WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! TELL THE WORLD 🌎🌎🌎 BABY ❤❤❤
Thank you for the video. I live in View Park.
Peaches I used to stay on the other side over in Windsor Hills, on the corner Harcourt and 54th.
How is it over there? I live in paris France and always wanted to visit a place in the US where blaccamericans live in a peaceful drug free crime free gang free environment. I would love to go on vacation there and visit.
@@kabeyz Well, it isn't free from any of those things, at all.
You should update this. Lots of likes!
We moved to "The Dons" in 1963. I was one of only two Black Kids in my First Grade Class.
Those areas are beautiful! 15 mins from the airport, close to DTLA and Hollywood! They want these areas back! 🤷🏾♀️
What a treat to see, at 3:35 that's my God Father Clifford Hall with Mayor Tom Bradley!
Had a girlfriend who lived in baldwin hills early 80s we used to meet at the fox hills mall
please keep it black. sell to brothers and sisters. support black owned businesses.
Deserves more views.
The first word that came to mind was : Revenge! 😅 Great documentary. 💯 I went looking up these neighborhoods when someone from another post brought "Windsor Hills 'up. And they spoke on how mostly wealthy BP lived there.
I love both of these documentaries, and your style of documentary... but you are missing a perspective. My seventy-three-year-old white mother has lived in Ladera Heights almost her entire life, and I grew up there as well. Being the only white kid in an affluent black neighborhood is definitely a perspective very few have had. If I you do a part 3, I would definitely be honored to be interviewed.
Thanks for watching, Chris! I’m glad you enjoyed the film and your experience is definitely something to think about. It would be awesome to interview you. You can send us an email at: theafterlifefilms@gmail.com
Gentrification is on overload in many neighborhoods in Pittsburgh in particular the East Liberty.
Could you research and do a video about black neighborhoods in Orange County, Santa Ana, CA
AS A PERSON WHO GREW UP IN BALDWIN HILLS IN THE 70s and 80s THE VIEW PARK BALDWIN HILLS IS NOT ONLY UPPER MIDDL CLASS AREA LEIMERT PARK JEFFERSON PARK INGLEWOOD CARSON DEL AMO AND MORE
The saddest thing I've seen since covid is my BFF having to go head-to-head/toe-to-toe with her two siblings who are dead set on SELLING the PAID OFF/NO MORTGAGE/CLEAR TITLE HOUSE their parents worked hard to provide for them. She wants to remodel and MTR it with generational wealth as the focus while they want to sell for quick money. Diversity is fine; however, GIVING UP without so much as having 39 acres fall back on is NOT the way for us to go.
The reason is they want a brand new car and money to spend.We get property from our parent's and want the money!! It's not gentrification if the house was paid for !!
What I also see is that more black peoples needs to get the into urban development to be a part of the building and decisions that affect the neighborhoods.
It’s sad because a lot of African Americans are selling there homes for Ms to Caucasian and moving to riverside and Palmdale and the valley and stuff
Why is that sad? Why do you hate white people so much?
Ahshfbwbwjcn AJ we. Eh because we blacks been through hell in this damn country and the only way for us to be successful and survival is have each other’s backs. Stop trying to destroy us with your integration tactics.
@@thecraplordsell4575 you sound like a Klansmen.
@@yrretgnortsmra8955 oh well, I’m sorry for looking after my people first and want black advancement.
@@thecraplordsell4575 You shouldn't apologize for wanting that. It's unfortunate that you think nobody else wants that for you too.
You shouldn't stretch your stock footage to fit 16x9 frame.
brianjcavanaugh Got it. Thanks for the tip!
Just focus on African Americans who are not in the entertainment industry.
Nice video...we should be allowed to have our own"neighborhoods" without the pressure of being driven out ! all other groups have their own towns etc. Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Bombay....where's our TOWN ?
I assume you're white?
We live in Windsor Hills 🙋🏽♂️ #blackbeverlyhills
Who cares
I would love to live in a wealthy, predominantly black neighborhood.
You watch to much television ! What planet do you live on ?
The state of Maryland has the most affluent Black neighborhoods in the country, not the Baldwin Hills area.
You guys love to argue about this but being from SC I would take either one lol
I did live in Maryland,I loved it but I need that LA weather 😏
Yup! Woodmore for example
@David...Yes, the Prince George's county:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George%27s_County,_Maryland
Actually, you all would be wrong. The top three "richest Black communiites" in the U.S. are View Park, Windsor Hills, and Ladera Heights. See here.............
praisedc.com/1683807/10-richest-black-communities-in-america/
You can’t compare DC to Cali
I love ladera heights ❤
This is why we got black Beverly Hills took from us from not keeping it a secret and posting it on things like this
White flight is occurring in the Bay and LA again. With the pandemic people have no reason to be in cities when they can work from home. I live in San Francisco and my neighborhood lost 1500 people in the last month.
Once you go black it looks like you can go back. It's basic economics as middle to upper class whites can't afford Santa Monica and West Los Angeles so they have moved east to see "cheaper" homes. They are probably putting down $200K on the homes in Baldwin Hills plus loans are easier for whites to get than blacks. It is not a level playing field. Then the new owner guts the house and does a complete remodel. You are going up against big money and people of color will find it almost impossible to compete. This is a systemic issue as the buyers are no where close to being the same.
Getting a loan has nothing to do with your skin color you prick
Ahshfbwbwjcn AJ we. Eh There’s literally been studies proving its harder to get a loan if you’re a POC www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/10/blacks-and-hispanics-face-extra-challenges-in-getting-home-loans/%3famp=1
Ellise Walton yeah it’s harder if you have a bad credit history. Any black person with a 700+ credit score will be able to get a loan.
LaDera Heights, View Park and Fox Hills (Culver City) were my stomping grounds! My DNA is all over em’! Wait, that don’t sound right! You know what I mean! Hahahahaha!
Beautiful area,sad that the people who actually love the area,Afro-Americans they get pushed out. So unfair.
Gang
Planet Hollywood went Planet Third World.
Well its 2019 and the area is still not gentrified. The Crenshaw line is way behind schedule.
It's too close to the Inglewood oil field. White folks don't want to live there.
@@chrisreynolds6391 they tried to sale it to white folks and thet just dont want it. La does not have the same housing crises as the bay area not going to work.
No need for gentrification
Fuck gentrification
Not now they are buying it up now...my aunt has lived in Inglewood since the early 80s and never had white neighbors on either side until 2020
Segregation was the best thing to ever happen to us.... If we would've remained segregated and autonomous, we wouldn't have to worry about gentrification and whites Asians Hispanics moving to our hoods.
WTF are you talking about? Nothing good comes from segregation, except more racism. Which is apparent from your comment. FYI you got it backwards. In 1942, when my family bought their newly built home in Windsor Hills, it was predominately white. As more blacks moved in, there was never any racial tension. My Grandfather developed life long friendships with the neighbors. There was a mutual respect back then that does not exist in that neighborhood today, 3 generations later. Neighbors would outright say, when you gonna sell? They'd find any little thing wrong in order to report us. Left the trash can on the street one day longer than permitted. My car cover has a tear along the side, actually got a letter from the county ordering me to buy a new one or get fined. The list goes on and on. So yeah! tell me again how racist I am? How many racist white people you know that live their whole life in an area where no whites live? I'll wait!
Autonomous... Never will happen without the white man.
Hollywood use to be the hood in the 1930s
big d and it's still is . look up gangs in Hollywood
big d Hollywood has hoods like East and north 😂🤦🏾♂️
Tina Turner brought me here. Her home was very beautiful I had to learn more of this mid century black Beverly Hills and her 1 million dollar asking price. It all comes down to you live where you can afford. I could not afford her old neighborhood.
I wish I grew up out here
Funny the first 2 minutes of the video is considered the ghetto aka the jungles
Yeah, the jungle was the first area built in Baldwin Hills, and the apartments were considered "upper class" back then.
True it was the Baldwin village part
@Alex To Go Which "the blacks" do you speak of?
Alex To go you’re a moron
@@DjTIMEJD did you not read my original comment? The gang bangers. The "bloods" or whatever their called.
I was just thinking about buying a house in Windsor Hills. I'm not black, judging by these comments sounds like I'm not welcome here.
Probably not. My family lived in the same house for 3 generations since 1942. My mom Graduated from Dorsey High. You are right. We are not welcome there. Even though we were there long before any of the surrounding neighbors. They never liked the fact that we were there. A long history of harassment and racist behavior towards us.
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1:10 you need to travel more. Neighborhoods in Nigeria and Ghana and Gambia have far more wealth!!!!
I don't understand why people are getting so mad at that their neighborhood is not a 100% black anymore I grew up spending my summer's in Inglewood right on the Ladera Heights and Inglewood border at my grandfather's house which I now live in because my grandfather gave me the house after he passed it is nice to pay the property taxes from 1948 I am glad that property values are going up I'm glad that the area is getting cleaned up I don't understand why you want to keep properties prices down so the area stays ghetto
All black means ghetto? Diversity means not ghetto? The property value is going up only because non blacks are moving in, and they respect non black homeowners more than black ones. That’s the problem. The association with black ppl and ghetto.
@@PokeBruh_98 facts put that clown in his place
@@PokeBruh_98 Well said Hey, other races respect you more than you're own.And that's why the areas are not all black, we get jealous of our own people very quickly.
@@PokeBruh_98 💯
Raise more professionals, businessmen & politicians, not entertainers.
Where’s the Mexican Beverly Hills ?
Downey, CA
ALL of San Diego
I painted some of those houses and always wondered why are there so many black ppl around here..? Now I know.
Sound pretty racist of you to have that thought. You assume all black folk are poor? True definition of unconscious bias.
Im laughing,but i aint laughing..( chuckles a bit )
The 2020 Census will tell the story. I’ll be surprised if these areas are collectively even 70% Black still.
What’s your point?
Ahshfbwbwjcn AJ we. Eh Can you read?
LeimertDreamer is it problematic that it’s less than 70% black?
Ahshfbwbwjcn AJ we. Eh yes because we love our people
The crap lord Sell racist
3:20 fine white women lol
Wow…..can black people have anything?
Ha. And now this guy is spamming me with “don’t forget to subscribe!” Messages. The worst. Avoid at all cost.
The horrible music does not connect to these neighborhoods. Stop the propaganda.
Basically ReSegregation taking place..
So badly edited it's unwatchable. Nothing makes sense.
Don't forget to subscribe :D
Lord he must be white
Look like Obama pass by and everything went down to shit
This is such a racist video, i am an hispanic guy who has asian, black, white and arab friends and i wouldn't mind living right next to a black neighbor as long as he is friendly, we need to end with the racism in the US and mostly in the most diverse state in the US (California).
K.
How is this video racist? You’re a weirdo.
@@TheCm900 Right! Its people who name off what racial backgrounds they claim as friends that be the ones who is racist.
Why is it other races push for diversity in black communities but not other communities. Why does this feels like a set up.
Daniel R, you would need to understand a little bit of American history as to why neighborhoods such as the "Black Beverly Hills" materialized in the first place. Across the nation and prior to desegregation, blacks, no matter their educational or income level, were forced to reside in overcrowded slums, ghettos, hoods etc. Once the professional/educated class of blacks were able to purchase homes in nice neighborhoods (all overwhelmingly white at the time) white flight occurred in most cases, opening up room but no one but blacks to move in, as it was undesirable to whites by that time. Overtime, as all of the original black children of the doctors, lawyers, entertainers, etc that grew up in the area and overtime, it sort of lost that " most sought after neighborhood for the upwardly mobile blacks" and that left mostly our elderly and lower income brothers and sisters and that led to a general decline of that area of Black AND Hispanic neighborhoods across the country. Same thing is happening where I live in Dallas. Although its not really black neighborhoods, but high% Hispanic neighborhoods, like the Bishop arts district, Elmwood, Vicery place, Jefferson Blvd. Most high income predominantly white neighborhoods in the city are very expensive, leaving many whites not able to afford those prices either. Therefore, they have to look in more affordable areas over the more expensive west side, like Bel air, Malibu, Brentwood, etc.
Last thing, I think another reason this area has experienced black flight is due simply to the fact that most rich black professionals/entertainers live in all other wealthy neighborhoods throughout LA and some have even left the state of CA, where they can get more bang for their buck. All it takes is more wealthy blacks to repopulate those areas like they did in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.