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When Valerie Lynne Shaw describes the Los Angeles African American Community Oral History Project, she calls it “a project that is very simple… yet very necessary.” A longtime civic leader who was born and raised in Los Angeles, Valerie Lynne Shaw grew up in a close-knit Black neighborhood shaped by the Great Migration—an era when families were building community, opportunity, and civic pride across the city. As a City Commissioner on the Board of Public...