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Sept. 27, 2022

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Meet Ivan Houston, a 4th generation California native whose family left their mark on a little-known area of Los Angeles called West Adams, a once-thriving historical black neighborhood.โฃ

If you look for the location of West Adams today, you won't find anything but a broken legacy split apart by gentrification and a massive highway.โฃ

Ivan's grandfather, Norman Houston, was one of the first blacks in West Adams and once President of Golden State Mutual Company, the largest black-owned insurance company in California.โฃ

Ivan joined me in this episode to talk about West Adam's fascinating and groundbreaking history in African-American civil rights, his family's key involvement in this history, as well as Berkeley Square and Sugarhill's untimely demise in the wake of the 10 Freeway.โฃ

Tune in to hear stories about vision, effecting change, the Buffalo soldiers in Italy, and lots more.โฃ

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Ivan Houston

Engineer

Born in Los Angeles, California outside of West Adams, Ivan Houston has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, from Prairie View A&M University, Texas. He currently has dual occupations as the owner and Founder of Ivan's Cooking LLC, and as engineer, baker, candy maker, and owner of an internet-based bakery.

He is also president of the Golden State Minority Foundation by Golden State Mutual Life in Los Angeles, California.