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Lynell George

Her work has appeared in various essay collections and in news outlets including Boom: A Journal of California, Slake, The Smithsonian, GoodReads, Vibe, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Essence, Black Clock, The Root and Ms. She is the author of "No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels" (Verso/Doubleday) a collection of features and essays drawn from her reporting.
Recent Articles
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Keeping Time: John Reynolds Invokes Lost Los Angeles in Landscapes and Song
Post date: 2016-07-06T08:42:00-07:00Musician and painter John Reynolds is a fifth-generation Californian inspired by 20th century architecture and song. For decades, his work has been mining a vivid past, as a way to both mark time and celebrate place.
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literature
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Writer Claudia Rankine On White Blindness, The Black Body, and the Freedom to Live
Post date: 2015-09-03T18:00:00-07:00Award-winning writer Claudia Rankine's newest book "Citizen: An American Lyric" is a collection of poetry, prose and imagery that addresses race, racism and privilege though several voices. The work has been adapted into a play at the Fountain Theatre ...
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literature
Artbound
The View from the Air: Mapping L.A. Radio
Post date: 2015-05-01T06:00:00-07:00What would L.A. "look like" if you could navigate it, translate and understand it, by way of its radio air?
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Chinatown
Departures
The Little Jewel of New Orleans: Chinatown's New Lagniappe
Post date: 2015-02-17T06:00:57-08:00Happening upon the Little Jewel is a transporting blast of New Orleans, smack in the middle of old Los Angeles. But this marriage of place and cuisine isn't as unconventional as it might at first seem.
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leimert park
Departures
A Seat at the Table: Post & Beam in Crenshaw Builds Community One Course at a Time
Post date: 2014-07-23T05:00:36-07:00Post and Beam has become the between home and work spot that facilitates and anchors community in the Crenshaw District.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Dominique Moody: The Urban Nomad
Post date: 2014-06-04T18:00:00-07:00Dominique Moody's "The Urban NOMAD," a mobile house as living work of art, grew out of a life-long sense of rootlessness, conveying the through-line of the African diaspora.