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Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.
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Aja Brown
Aja Lena Brown (born April 17, 1982) is an American politician who currently serves as Mayor of Compton, California.
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Alameda Corridor
The Alameda Corridor is a freight rail "expressway" owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority that connects the national rail system near downtown Los Angeles, California, to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, running parallel to Alameda Street.
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Alta California
Alta California (Upper California), founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portolà, was a polity of New Spain, and, after the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, a territory of Mexico.
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Anambra State
Anambra is a state in southeastern Nigeria.
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Annexation
Annexation (Latin ad, to, and nexus, joining) is the administrative action and concept in international law relating to the forcible transition of one state's territory by another state.
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Apia
Apia is the capital and the largest city of Samoa.
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Area codes 310 and 424
Area codes 310 and 424 are California telephone area codes that cover the West Los Angeles and South Bay areas of Los Angeles County, including Santa Catalina Island (located south of the mainland portion of Los Angeles County).
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Arron Afflalo
Arron Agustin Afflalo (born October 15, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Artesia, California
Artesia is a city in southeast Los Angeles County, California.
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Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States.
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Bell, California
Bell is an incorporated city in Los Angeles County, California, near the center of the former San Antonio Township (abolished after 1960).
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Bellflower, California
Bellflower is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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Bloods
The Bloods, also known as (OBF) Original Blood Family, are a primarily African-American street gang founded in Los Angeles, California.
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Blue Line (Los Angeles Metro)
The Blue Line is a light rail line running north-south between Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, passing through Downtown Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, Watts, Willowbrook, Compton, Rancho Dominguez and Long Beach in Los Angeles County.
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Brandon Jennings
Brandon Byron Jennings (born September 23, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California Proposition 13 (1978)
Proposition 13 (officially named the People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation) was an amendment of the Constitution of California enacted during 1978, by means of the initiative process.
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California State Legislature
The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California.
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California State Route 91
State Route 91 (SR 91) is a major east–west freeway located entirely within Southern California and serving several regions of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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Californio
Californio (historical and regional Spanish for "Californian") is a Spanish term with widely varying interpretations.
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Camptonville, California
Camptonville (formerly, Comptonville and Gold Ridge) is a small town and census-designated place (CDP) located in northeastern Yuba County, California.
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Carson, California
Carson is a city in Los Angeles County, California.
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Cedric Ceballos
Cedric Z. Ceballos (born August 2, 1969) is an American former professional basketball player.
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Census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
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Centennial High School (Compton, California)
Centennial High School is a public high school in Compton, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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Cerritos, California
Cerritos (Spanish for little hills), formerly named Dairy Valley because of the preponderance of dairy farms in the area, is an affluent suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County.
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City council
A city council, town council, town board, or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality, or local government area.
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City manager
A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government.
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City treasurer
The City Treasurer is a position of responsibility for a city according to the prevailing laws in that city.
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Compton Cricket Club
The Compton Cricket Club (CCC), or the "Homies and the Popz", is a cricket club based in Compton, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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Compton High School
Compton High School is a high school in Compton, California, USA, part of the Compton Unified School District.
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Compton Police Department (California)
The Compton Police Department was the municipal law enforcement agency for the city of Compton, California until it was disbanded by the City Council on September 16, 2000.
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Compton station
Compton is an at grade light rail station on the Los Angeles County Metro Blue Line.
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Compton Unified School District
Compton Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Compton, California, United States.
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Compton's Most Wanted
Compton's Most Wanted (C.M.W.) was an American gangsta rap group and one of the original pioneers of the West Coast hip hop scene.
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Compton/Woodley Airport
Compton/Woodley Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located two miles southwest of downtown Compton, in southern Los Angeles County, California.
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Coolio
Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (born August 1, 1963), known professionally as Coolio, is an American rapper, actor, chef, and record producer.
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Council–manager government
The council–manager government form is one of two predominant forms of local government in the United States and Ireland, the other being the mayor–council government form.
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Crime in the United States
Crime in the United States has been recorded since colonization.
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Crips
The Crips, also known as Original Crip Homies (OCH), are a gang based in the coastal regions of Southern California.
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DeMar DeRozan
DeMar Darnell DeRozan (born August 7, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Dennis Johnson
Dennis Wayne Johnson (September 18, 1954 – February 22, 2007), nicknamed "DJ", was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics and coach of the Los Angeles Clippers.
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DJ Jazzy Jeff
Jeffrey Allen Townes (born January 22, 1965), known professionally as DJ Jazzy Jeff or simply Jazz, is an American record producer, DJ, actor and comedian who is best known for his friendship and collaboration with Will Smith as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.
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DJ Quik
David Marvin Blake (born January 18, 1970), better known by his stage name DJ Quik, is an American hip hop recording artist, DJ and record producer.
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DJ Yella
Antoine Carraby (born December 11, 1967), better known by his stage name DJ Yella, is an American rapper, DJ, record producer and film director from Compton, California.
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Domestic partnership
A domestic partnership is an interpersonal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not married (to each other or to anyone else), but they receive a lot of benefits that guarantee rights of survivor ship, hospital visitation and others.
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Doris A. Davis
Doris A. Davis (born circa 1935) is a former mayor of Compton, California, who earned a place in history as the first African-American woman mayor of a metropolitan city in the United States.
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Douglas Dollarhide
Douglas Dollarhide (March 11, 1923 – June 28, 2008) was an American politician, notable for serving as the first black mayor of a major California city.
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Downtown Compton
Downtown Compton is the major business district of Compton, California.
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Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 58,000 people.
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Dr. Dre
Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), better known by his stage name Dr.
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East Rancho Dominguez, California
East Rancho Dominguez, also known as East Compton, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in southern Los Angeles County, California.
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Eazy-E
Eric Lynn Wright (September 7, 1964March 26, 1995), better known by his stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper who performed solo and in the hip hop group N.W.A. Wright is affectionately called "The Godfather of Gangsta rap".
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El Camino College
El Camino College (Elco or ECC) is a two-year public community college located in the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County known as Alondra Park.
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Eric J. Perrodin
Eric J. Perrodin (born February 26, 1959) is a controversial American politician who served as Mayor of Compton, California from 2001–2013.
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Family (US Census)
A family is defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes as "a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family." A family household is more inclusive, consisting of "a household maintained by a householder who is in a family (as defined above), and includes any unrelated people (unrelated subfamily members and/or secondary individuals) who may be residing there." In 2014 the US Census Bureau began including same-sex marriages in their counts of families and family households.
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Federal Information Processing Standards
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.
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Filipino Americans
Filipino Americans (Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino descent.
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Food 4 Less
Food 4 Less is a national warehouse store grocery chain, currently owned by Kroger.
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G-funk
G-funk, or gangsta-funk, is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast Gangsta rap in the early 1990s, heavily influenced by 1970s funk sound of artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic.
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Gang
A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.
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Gangsta rap
Gangsta rap or Gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle.
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General aviation
General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.
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Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.
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Greyhound Lines
Greyhound Lines, Inc., usually shortened to Greyhound, is an intercity bus common carrier serving over 3,800 destinations across North America.
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Gun violence
Gun-related violence is violence committed with the use of a gun (firearm or small arm).
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
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Huntington Park, California
Huntington Park is a city in the Gateway Cities district of southeastern Los Angeles County, California.
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Ice Cube
O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, writer and actor.
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Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.
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Inglewood, California
Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California.
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Inner suburb
Inner suburb is a term used for a variety of suburban communities that are generally located very close to the centre of a large city (the inner city and central business district).
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Interstate 105 (California)
Interstate 105 (I-105) is an Interstate Highway in southern Los Angeles County, California that runs east–west from near the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Norwalk.
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Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California)
Route 110, consisting of State Route 110 (SR 110) and Interstate 110 (I-110), is a state highway in the Los Angeles area of the U.S. state of California, built to freeway standards.
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Interstate 710
Interstate 710 (I-710), is a state highway in the Los Angeles area of the U.S. state of California, built to Interstate Highway standards.
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KABC-TV
KABC-TV, channel 7, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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Kroger
The Kroger Company, or simply Kroger, is an American retailing company founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Ladera Heights, California
Ladera Heights is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California.
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Latino
Latino is a term often used in the United States to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America, in contrast to Hispanic which is a demonym that includes Spaniards and other speakers of the Spanish language.
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Lee Baca
Leroy David "Lee" Baca (born May 27, 1942) is a former Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California.
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Light rail
Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.
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Lionel Cade
Lionel B. Cade (August 14, 1918 – April 3, 1990) was an American accountant who served as mayor of Compton, California, from 1977 until 1981.
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List of cities and towns in California
California is a state located in the Western United States.
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List of counties in California
The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties.
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List of people from Compton, California
This article lists notable people who are natives of Compton, California, or have been residents of the city.
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List of sovereign states
This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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Local Agency Formation Commission
Local Agency Formation Commissions or LAFCOs are regional service planning agencies of the State of California.
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Long Beach Airport
Long Beach Airport is a city-owned public airport three miles northeast of downtown Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, California.
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Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Los Angeles (magazine)
Los Angeles magazine is a monthly publication dedicated to covering Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (abbreviated DHS and LADHS) operates the public hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles County, and is United States' second largest municipal health system, after NYC Health + Hospitals.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
With 17,694 employees, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is the nation's largest Sheriff's Department.
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Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.
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Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles, California.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Lynwood, California
Lynwood is a city in Los Angeles County, California.
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Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy
The Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy are a series of academies opening in cities across the United States and one in Puerto Rico that provides free year-round instruction in baseball and softball to the area's youth.
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Manuel Dominguez
Manuel Dominguez (1803–1882) was born at Mission San Juan Capistrano, in the colonial Las Californias province of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México).
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Manuel Dominguez High School
Manuel Dominguez High School is a four-year public high school located in Compton, California.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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Mayor
In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.
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MC Ren
Lorenzo Jerald Patterson (born June 16, 1969), better known by his stage name MC Ren, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Compton, California.
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Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Moors
The term "Moors" refers primarily to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Malta during the Middle Ages.
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Municipal corporation
A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.
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N.W.A
N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes) was an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California.
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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Native Daughters of the Golden West
Native Daughters of the Golden West is an American non-profit organization for women born in California.
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North American Numbering Plan
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan that encompasses 25 distinct regions in twenty countries primarily in North America, including the Caribbean and the U.S. territories.
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Norwalk, California
Norwalk is a suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Obelisk
An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος obeliskos; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
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Omar Bradley (politician)
Omar Bradley (born May 9, 1958) is an American politician who served as mayor of Compton, California from 1993 until 2001.
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Onitsha
Onitsha (or just Ọ̀nị̀chà) is a city located on the eastern bank of the Niger River, in Nigeria's Anambra State.
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Pacific Coast Waste and Recycling
Pacific Coast Waste and Recycling, LLC (PCW&R) is a private waste management company located in Compton, California, established in 2005.
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Pacific Islands Americans
Pacific Islands Americans, also known as Oceanian Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, or Native Hawaiian and/or other Pacific Islander Americans, are Americans who have ethnic ancestry among the indigenous peoples of Oceania (viz. Polynesians, Melanesians and Micronesians).
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Pacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.
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Paramount, California
Paramount is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.
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Paul Rodriguez (actor)
Paul Rodriguez, Sr. (born January 19, 1955) is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian and actor.
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Political corruption
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain.
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Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
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Port of Spain
Port of Spain (also spelled Port-of-Spain) is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest city, after Chaguanas and San Fernando.
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POSSLQ
POSSLQ (plural POSSLQs) is an abbreviation (or acronym) for "person of opposite sex sharing living quarters", a term coined in the late 1970s by the United States Census Bureau as part of an effort to more accurately gauge the prevalence of cohabitation in American households.
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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census
Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).
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Racial integration
Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation).
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Ralphs
Ralphs is an American major supermarket chain in the Southern California area and the largest subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Kroger.
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Rancho Dominguez, California
Rancho Dominguez is a former Spanish colonial and Mexican settlement in Alta California, and a present-day unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California.
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Rancho San Pedro
Rancho San Pedro was one of the first California land grants and the first to win a patent from the United States.
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Shelley v. Kraemer
Shelley v. Kraemer, (1948) is a landmark United States Supreme Court case holding that the State-Action Doctrine includes the enforcement of private contracts, the Equal Protection Clause prohibits racially restrictive housing covenants, and that such covenants are unenforceable in court.
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Sister city
Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.
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Sitcom
A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.
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South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles is a region in southern Los Angeles County, California lying to south of downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Stockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California.
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Straight Outta Compton
Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American hip hop group N.W.A, released August 8, 1988, on group member Eazy-E's record label Ruthless Records.
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Targovishte
Targovishte (Търговище, Tǎrgovište) is a city in Bulgaria, the administrative and economic capital of Targovishte Province.
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Tayshaun Prince
Tayshaun Durell Prince (born February 28, 1980) is an American professional basketball executive and former player.
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996.
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The Game (rapper)
Jayceon Terrell Taylor (born November 29, 1979), better known by his stage name The Game (or simply Game), is an American rapper and actor.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island sovereign state that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean.
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Tyson Chandler
Tyson Cleotis Chandler (born October 2, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.
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University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a public research university located in Irvine, Orange County, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system.
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University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.
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USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism comprises a School of Communication and a School of Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC).
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Ventura, California
Ventura, officially the City of San Buenaventura, is the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States.
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Vietnamese people
The Vietnamese people or the Kinh people (người Việt or người Kinh), are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam.
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View Park–Windsor Hills, California
View Park−Windsor Hills is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Waste-to-energy
Waste-to-energy (WtE) or energy-from-waste (EfW) is the process of generating energy in the form of electricity and/or heat from the primary treatment of waste, or the processing of waste into a fuel source.
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Watts riots
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965.
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Watts, Los Angeles
Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California.
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West Rancho Dominguez, California
West Rancho Dominguez (formerly, West Compton) is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) located in southern Los Angeles County, California.
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White flight
White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.
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Whittier, California
Whittier is a city in Southern California located within Los Angeles County, California.
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Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter.
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Willowbrook, California
Willowbrook, alternatively named Willow Brook, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California.
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Wilmington, Los Angeles
Wilmington is a neighborhood in the Los Angeles Harbor Region area of Los Angeles, California, covering 9.14 square miles.
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Yanga, Veracruz
Yanga Municipality is a municipality located in the southern area of the State of Veracruz, Mexico, about 80 km from the state capital of Xalapa.
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YG (rapper)
Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson (born March 9, 1990), better known by his stage name YG, is an American rapper and actor from Compton, California.
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Yuba County, California
Yuba County is a county in the U.S. state of California.
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ZIP Code
ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.
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1933 Long Beach earthquake
The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at south of downtown Los Angeles.
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1992 Los Angeles riots
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, and the Battle of Los Angeles, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in April and May 1992.
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2000 United States Census
The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 Census.
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2010 United States Census
The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton,_California
