Almena Lomax American journalist and civil rights activist, founder of the Los Angeles Tribune, died after a short illness she was , 95,

Hallie Almena Lomax  was an African American journalist and civil rights activist died after a short illness she was , 95,.

(née Davis) (July 23, 1915 – March 25, 2011)

Born in Galveston, Texas, her family moved to Chicago and later California, where Lomax studied journalism at the Los Angeles City College.^[1] In 1941 she started the Los Angeles Tribune, a weekly newspaper targeted at the African American community.^[2] During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960, she left California, with her children, to join the struggle in the South.^[3] Later she returned to California, where she worked at the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner.^[1] Here she covered such topics as the kidnapping of Patty Hearst.^[3] Lomax, a divorcee, had six children, four of whom survived her.^[2]

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