-- Haywood Galbreath, Executive Director, Minority Photo/Journalism Institute. Also owner of H.G. Star Company, the first African-American owned news photo service to record the Emmys from inside the auditorium. -- Frank Jackson, an artist who specializes in black and white images. -- The Associated Press, Los Angeles Bureau, Photo Editor Kim Johnson Flodin. -- Akili-Casundria Ramsess, San Jose Mercury News Deputy Director of Photography/Print. -- Bruce Talamon, only photojournalist allowed to tour with Reggae legend Bob Marley; and unit photographer for dozens of movies including Blade, Harlem Nights, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. -- Lester Sloan, owner, Lester Sloan Media Group, first African American staff photographer for Newsweek. -- D Stevens, award-winning photojournalist and still photographer for major motion pictures. He's photographed war and conflict in Belfast and Beirut and documented films such as Boyz 'N the Hood and Devil in a Blue Dress.Over the course of their careers, these prominent photographers have worked as White House pool photographers, produced photo essays for Time and Newsweek and other magazines, in addition to The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution on youth violence, crack babies, African-Americans in Paris, and the streets of London after last year's bombings. The black and white vintage location photographs were culled from the Automobile Club of Southern California Archives, the Los Angeles Unified School District photo collection, the Harry Adams Jr. Collection at Cal State Northridge and the Huntington Library. The California African American Museum is located at 600 State Drive in Exposition Park and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free and parking is $6. The museum is handicapped accessible throughout. The museum will be closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. The Automobile Club of Southern California, the largest member of the AAA federation of motor clubs, has been providing service since 1900. Today, the Auto Club's members benefit by roadside assistance, insurance products and services, travel agency, financial products, automotive pricing and buying programs, automotive testing and analysis, trip planning services and highway and transportation safety programs. Information about these products and services is available on the Auto Club's Web site at www.aaa.com.
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