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The Rams Return: Will Football Remake the City of Champions?
Post date:Amid the cheering of the return of the NFL to L.A., I have a nagging question: what will it mean for Inglewood?
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San Bernardino's Tragedy: Close to Home
Post date:The big little town that nobody thought about is on our minds now. What does that mean for the California dream?
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School Daze: LAUSD Adult School Pushes Back at Encroaching Charter School
Post date:In the volatile public vs. charter fight, one LAUSD campus is just trying to stay put.
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Market Value: A Stroll Through Inglewood's Farmer's Market
Post date:Inglewood's new farmer's market--one of an increasing number in So Cal-- isn't all it could be. But it's a start.
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San Vicente Blvd: The Road Too Travelled
Post date:Navigating a difficult summer on an uncelebrated boulevard became a matter of life and death.
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Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan
Post date:In teaching the lessons of race, Alan Kaplan built a relationship with the whole world. That included me.
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Jordan Davis, Tragedy, and Justice
Post date:A documentary detailing the tragic case of 17-year-old Jordan Davis is made even more powerful by the post-screening presence of his father, Ron Davis.
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Carolina, and Change: Why We Can't Feel
Post date:The tragedy in South Carolina is reverberating in Southern California -- but honestly, sometimes it's hard to tell.
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The Art of Race: Mark Greenfield's World, and Ours
Post date:Artist Mark Steven Greenfield may be retired, but he's not out of the game. The retrospective on display at CAAM has given him new inspiration.
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Why Inglewood is Wrong for Suing for Copyright
Post date:Inglewood sues a local critic of Mayor Butts for improperly using footage of city council meetings that it claims to own. What's wrong with this picture?
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The Enduring Matter of Black Lives
Post date:Another young black man was senselessly killed in L.A. this week. Not a surprise, but certainly a tragedy on par with the tragedies of Ferguson, Baltimore and here.
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Having Our Say with Ava DuVernay
Post date:Director Ava DuVernay recently shared in the celebration of black history -- and her-story -- with students, faculty and community at Cal State L.A.
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LAUSD Board Elections: A School Divided
Post date:In the charter-versus-public schools fight, I'm firmly on the side of public schools. But in Los Angeles and everywhere else, we really shouldn't be having this fight at all.
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Happiness is a Black Man? Longtime L.A. Poet and Writer Says Yes
Post date:Underneath it is a deeper question about why, in a country predicated on the pursuit of happiness, black men and happiness feels like such a contradiction.
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La Brea Rising in Inglewood
Post date:La Brea is an avenue whose time hasn't quite come, but it's getting there. I'm not talking about the La Brea that we already know, but about the other end of La Brea that starts at the dramatic rise at Stocker Street in Baldwin Hills.
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The Riot Inside Us
Post date:A celebration in Leimert Park of "urban black female poet" Wanda Coleman is cause for rumination about the recent events in Baltimore -- and here.
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The Name Game: South L.A. or SOLA, It's Still South Central
Post date:South L.A., formerly South Central, is looking at becoming the even more streamlined SOLA. If only we paid as much attention to the place as we do to what it's called.
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Keep It Under Your Hat: The Perceived Threat of Black Hair
Post date:The TSA has agreed to no longer single out black hair for security searches at airports. I guess some progress on racial profiling is better than none.
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Black People Vs. The Police: From South Carolina to Southern California
Post date:What happened in South Carolina confirmed for my class of black seniors what they'e known or experienced their whole lives. It also exposed divisions of opinion about what to do now.
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Rescue Me
Post date:When is a stray dog not just a dog? When you want to give it all the benefits of the urban good life that you never lived yourself.