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Inglewood Residents Get Into Holiday Spirit at This Year’s WinterFest

Shelby Stephens, Contributing WriterDecember 7, 2023

Hundreds gathered for the 2023 WinterFest at Hollywood Park in Inglewood on Saturday, Dec. 2. The free annual holiday celebration included a farmers’ market, activations from future Hollywood Park retail tenants and other local businesses, food vendors, holiday reef decorating activities, live entertainment from the Inglewood High School Marching Band, photos with Black Santa, and Baron Davis’ annual Celebrity Basketball Game.

The Importance of Black Santa

Brian W. Carter, Contributing WriterDecember 24, 2020

Now more than ever, representation is important and having a Black Santa Claus proves it.

Crenshaw & Around Family Local News

Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Has A Long Legacy of Black Santas!

Brian W. Carter, Contributing WriterDecember 19, 2019

Seeing a Black Santa at the local mall has become tradition.

Crenshaw & Around Family

Santa Claus—An Ideal, Not A Color

Brian W. Carter, Staff Writer [email protected] December 21, 2016

The big man in the red suit spreads joy to all regardless of color.

Family National News (Family)

Black Santa Claus who went viral hails from Arkansas

BRANDON MULDER, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-GazetteDecember 21, 2016

The man who came to be known around the nation as Black Santa after serving this month as the Mall of America’s first black Santa Claus got his Old Saint Nicholas start in his native state of Arkansas.