Danny Bakewell Jr.

Danny J. Bakewell, Jr. serves as the executive editor and chief of staff of the Los Angeles Sentinel, the largest African American owned and operated newspaper west of the Mississippi. It is part of the Bakewell Media Company, which also owns the Los Angeles Watts Times and Taste of Soul, the largest free family festival in California. 

Danny Jr. also serves as the President of The Bakewell Company, a business founded by his father Danny Bakewell, Sr., in the 1970s and now one of the largest African American-owned development companies in the United States. Most of the Bakewell Company’s 4 million square feet commercial project portfolio was and is in Southern California, and all of its properties are in areas with large communities of color.

 Danny Jr. is a board member of the USC Black Alumni Association, a Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. (Pasadena Alumni Chapter). He was appointed as the Political Action Chairman of the fraternity for the Western Region. He is also a Life Member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a board member of Sabriya’s Castle of Fun and the United Negro College Fund (Los Angeles).

 His mother, Aline Bakewell, Esq., is a 1975 graduate of CSUDH.