Before Inglewood, in the shadows of Los Angeles International Airport, takes center stage on Super Bowl Sunday, the midsize city had been the quiet focal point for one of California’s most significant demographic transitions.
At around the turn of the century, Inglewood, known as the City of Champions because of its long sports heritage, slowly morphed into a favorite landing spot for California’s burgeoning Latino population.
Combined, Black people and Latinos make up more than 90 percent of all residents. The City Council comprises two Black and two Latino members. Mayor James T. Butts, a South Los Angeles native who boasts that"The new Inglewood looks like a city of equity for people who have long been written off," Butts told NBC News.
The shift followed riots in nearby Watts in August 1965, when more than 30 people were killed and over 1,000 others were injured. The six days of unrest were sparked when a white police officer pulled over a pair of stepbrothers, who were Black. It was around that time that Inglewood native Irma Muñoz had her first experience feeling as though she didn’t belong.
“That was the first time it was clear to me that I was a mexicana and that I was different than others,” said Muñoz, the president and CEO of Mujeres de la Tierra, a nonprofit organization working to address social and climate change issues.
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