Map of Black-owned businesses in Los Angeles using 2023 Yelp API data generated with ArcGIS.

Black-Owned Businesses in Los Angeles

Digital Humanities 187: Capstone Seminar in Digital Humanities

Map of Black-owned businesses in Los Angeles Using 2023 Yelp API data generated with ArcGIS.

Bringing together Green Book business listings, HOLC redlining data, and a UCLA oral history interview, this project traces how discriminatory lending practices shaped the geography of Black-owned businesses in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the present.

Project Contributors: Kayla Hayempour, Abby Porter, Lucy Farnham, Elle Birkenruth, Cicely Liu