There Are Barely Any Black People Left in California — Here’s Why — Like Compton

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Once the heartbeat of Black culture on the West Coast, cities like Compton, Inglewood, Long Beach, and Oakland have changed beyond recognition. Black families who built these communities through generations of struggle, faith, and resilience are now vanishing — quietly pushed out by a mix of rising rent, unchecked immigration, gentrification, and political neglect. This report exposes the hard truth about what really happened to Black California, and why so many foundational families are gone.

Scope News investigates how cultural displacement, economic exploitation, and selective representation in politics led to this exodus. From Karen Bass’s unspoken Latino roots to Kamala Harris’s campaign identity politics, from Roscoe’s kitchen staff to landlords prioritizing undocumented tenants — this is the story of erasure, not migration. The neighborhoods remain, but the people who made them are disappearing.

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