He fearlessly held elected officials and leadership accountable while chiding the Black community for complacency and not doing the same.
He was a member of the Inglewood School Board; vice-president and education chair of the L.A. NAACP; a board member of Multicultural Collaborative and the Inglewood Coalition for Drug and Violence Prevention; vice-president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute; a member of the Reparations United Front; a member of the Committee to Save King Drew Medical Center; co-chair of the Black Community Clergy & Labor Alliance and so many more.
I was fortunate to work at the Sentinel during the era of seasoned journalists like Larry Aubrey (Columnist), Bob Farrell (Political Editor), Libby Clark (Food Editor), Virgie Murray (Religion Editor), Ron Dungee (Managing Editor) and Betty Pleasant (City Editor) who routinely shared the rich and colorful history that was Black Los Angeles.
Larry and the Sentinel team, under the helm of Danny Bakewell, Sr., keenly understood that the mission of Black and ethnic news outlets is to report on those stories ignored by mainstream media and to ensure that our narrative and image was not dictated by the overabundance of Black violence and criminal activity that continues to lead most other news reports.
Larry gave his readers a Black perspective rooted in pain and purpose.
