Members of the editorial and news staff of the Los Angeles magazine and the Engine Vision Media Network were not involved in the creation of this content. Letizia had an epiphany after spending 18 ...

Altha Gardner shrugs off questions about her remarkably long life with a hint of annoyance — yet also with the sense of humor her loved ones call “dry.” Ask for details about her childhood a century ...

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Altha Lee Harris-Brooks was born into a 1911 America where women had no vote, the U.S. Supreme Court sanctioned racially segregated schools, and the great migration to the North of African-Americans ...