Cindy Carcamo is a staff writer in Food for the Los Angeles Times. She most recently covered immigration issues as a Metro reporter and, before that, served as Arizona bureau chief and national ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

It’s a Thursday afternoon inside of the Rev. Dr. Larry E. Campbell’s First AME Church Pasadena. And it’s packed inside. * * Bishop Marvin C. Zanders, II and bishops for the AME Church gathered in ...