Families From Altadena’s New Rebuilding Documentary Will Be Onstage With It

When a new documentary about four Black Altadena families screens at Loma Alta Park tonight, families from the film will be onstage afterward to take questions.

“Reclaiming Home: Black Altadena Rebuilds” is the County of Los Angeles’ own account of what the Eaton Fire did to a community where Black families spent generations buying houses and keeping them. The county is screening it free, outdoors, in the neighborhood it is about, then turning the evening over to the president of the Altadena Historical Society, the president of the Altadena NAACP and families from the film.

A Small Business Vendor Marketplace opens at 6:00 p.m. and the program begins at 7:00 p.m. on the lower Loma section of Loma Alta Park, 3330 North Lincoln Avenue, according to the county’s announcement.

Admission is free, the event is open to residents and members of the public, and the evening will bring together residents, local leaders and historians for storytelling and community connection.

Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who represents Altadena in the county’s Fifth District, will deliver welcome remarks. Veteran broadcast journalist Pat Harvey will emcee and moderate the panel. Pastor LaKeith Kenebrew of Hillside Tabernacle will deliver the invocation.

The panel brings together Veronica Jones of the Altadena Historical Society, Wilberta Richardson of the NAACP Altadena Branch and families featured in the film, the announcement said. Jones has led the society, founded in 1935, as its first Black president and has lived in Altadena for more than 60 years. Richardson, an attorney, is president of the Altadena NAACP, a branch active since 1984.