Attorney Roland Lee Coleman Jr., the second Black person to lead the Los Angeles County Bar Assn., has died. He was 74. Coleman also served as president of the John M. Langston Bar Assn. of Los Angeles, founded in the 1920s to serve and support Black lawyers excluded from other bar associations. Coleman once recounted being told that a Black attorney couldn’t win cases in Glendale or Fullerton. In the face of racism, "I really believed I had to be better than anybody else," he said. In the... Read this story
