Cheryl Cox remembers as a child standing in front of the wall honoring her great-great-great-great-grandmother Biddy Mason, a former slave who became a wealthy landowner, a noted philanthropist and a ...

Grandma Mason aka Bridget - Biddy - Mason was the first black woman to buy property in LA. She also founded the first black church too. By the time she died, she was wealthy and a philanthropist, an ...

Cheryl Cox was in the fourth grade when she spotted her “Grandma Biddy’s” name printed on a page of a textbook. The information was short, incomplete, and placed along the book’s spine as if the real ...

Known by many as the 'Grandmother of LA,' Bridget "Biddy" Mason's descendants want to make sure she is honored for all of her contributions, including trying to get a street named after her. Mason was ...

Biddy Mason Memorial Park in downtown LA is hidden behind a parking lot, an obscure place dedicated to a local icon most Angelenos don’t know. “We don’t know a lot about African American and women’s ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - As Black History Month comes to a close, city officials and community members gathered to remember Los Angeles pioneer Biddy Mason, a slave who went to court to win her freedom ...

The City Council on Wednesday approved the designation of a stretch of Spring Street in downtown L.A. as “Biddy Mason Legacy Corridor,” in honor of a former slave who became a prominent Southland ...

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Los Angeles Councilmember Kevin de León arrives for a news conference in Pershing Square on Juneteenth to announce his intent to rename the park after Biddy Mason, a pioneering Black woman. (Brian van ...

Downtown Los Angeles’ Pershing Square, which includes one of the city’s oldest parks, would get a new name to honor former slave and early founder of the city Bridget “Biddy” Mason under a plan ...