Danny Bakewell

Danny Joseph Bakewell (born 1946) is an American civil rights activist, real estate developer and media owner. He is the owner of The Bakewell Company, which includes among its holdings the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper. He has also served as Chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).

Early life and career Bakewell was born and raised in New Orleans, moving out to Los Angeles in 1967.

Bakewell is the co-founder of the National Black United Fund. He also served as President of The Brotherhood Crusade, a civil rights advocate organization for the Black Los Angeles community, for over 30 years. He purchased the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city's oldest and largest Black newspaper, in 2004. In 2005, he started Taste of Soul, a one-day block party in South LA. In 2007, he purchased the New Orleans radio station WBOK. He later sold WBOK to a company owned partly by Wendell Pierce.

Bakewell also served as chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

Bakewell is Catholic.