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artbound
Artbound
The Bowtie Offers a Rare Refuge Along the L.A. River
Post date:The Bowtie is a popular place to find refuge in. That could change in the not-too-distant future, once the site is cleaned up and landscaped.
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KCET Press Releases
Press Room
KCET's Award-Winning Weekly Series 'SOCAL CONNECTED' Looks at Unanswered Questions Around the Growing Use of Body Cameras by Southern California Police Officers
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!["Pay Me No Mind" by Fabian Debora, 2010, acrylic/canvas. | Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/BoomDebora1.jpg?itok=YeHVvM8e ""Pay Me No Mind" by Fabian Debora, 2010, acrylic/canvas. | Courtesy of the artist.")
Visual Arts
Artbound
From Gangs to Art: The Salvation of Fabian Debora
Post date:Fabian Debora paints like many latter-day Chicano artists, employing visual irony to address wider themes only tangentially related to traditional barrio concerns.
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Steve Abee: We're All Just Waves
Post date:"I love this crazy city. It's an amazing piece of the planet. You get up on a hilltop and the vista you are presented with is this eternal, mythological dreamscape."
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Jose Saca: From Salvador, Robbed by Coyotes, Amnestied by Reagan
Post date:We took the bus to Guatemala, where we got assaulted by our coyote. He took almost everything from us.
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Inglewood
SoCal Focus
Injunction (Dys)Function: Inglewood has a Gang Problem, But What's the Solution?
Post date:In middle-class Inglewood, we'd all like to see gangs go away. But an injunction isn't going to do the job.
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Highland Park
Departures
The Avenues: Highland Park Gang
Post date:In the 1980s disenfranchised youth of Highland Park, bereft of community resources and victims of education inequality, became increasingly susceptible to gang activity.
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SoCal Focus
War of the Roses
Post date:In Inglewood, taking back the streets is not just a process, it's an existential dilemma.
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Departures
SoCal Focus
The Compton Jr. Posse: Leadership and Horsemanship, Not Gangs
Post date:Mayisha Akbar, a real estate broker from Torrance, moved to Compton's Richland Farms in 1988 after researching the neighborhood for a client. "When I came across the community," she explained, "I thought, 'Oh man, who would ever realize there were hors...
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gangs
Departures
Luis Rodriguez: East L.A. and the Los Angeles River
Post date:Luis Rodriguez, a Los Angeles native and writer, sees the Los Angeles River as a public forum for the exchange of art and ideas.
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Homeboy Industries
Commentary
Homeboy Industries to Get County Funding
Post date:Today, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.3-million contract with Homeboy Industries after financial problems threatened the life of the program
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gangs
Departures
The Rise of Hip Hop and the Black Flight
Post date:By the end of the 1960s, African-Americans had abandoned the search for a racial Promise Land and had come to terms with the near impossible task of overcoming the physical, philosophical and economical barriers created by centuries of racism.
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parks
Departures
Eric J. Perrodin - Mayor Of Compton
Post date:Eric J. Perrodin, former policeman and now the mayor of Compton, has pride in the agriculture roots of Richland Farm and advocates for more green space outlets for Compton's youth.
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storytelling
Departures
Francisco Letelier: Muralist
Post date:Francisco Letelier and his brother, José, established the "Brigada Orlando Letelier", and began traveling across the country creating collaborative murals.
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education
Departures
Lois Webb - Executive Director, Tech Team Computer Learning Center
Post date:Tech Team, developed and run by Lois Webb and Vicki Landers, is one that provides free computing education, from basic typing instruction to building computers via creating web sites from scratch.
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Departures
Ansar "Stan" Muhammad - Executive Director, Venice 2000
Post date:Stan Muhammad has nothing to hide and nothing to fear. That's because before becoming the Executive Director of a gang rehabilitation and job-training program.
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crime
Departures
Dr. Karen Umemoto - Professor, Urban and Regional Planning
Post date:Professor Karen Umemoto lived in the vicinity and began a two-year ethnographic study, interviewing many of Oakwood's residents during and after the gang conflict.
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community
Departures
Lindsey Haley - Chicano Poet and Activist
Post date:Lindsey Haley was raised in Venice, her family part of the Chicano wave that took roots on the Westside during the 1960s and 1970s
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gentrification
Departures
Jataun Valentine & Navalette Tabor Bailey - Venice Residents
Post date:Jataun Valentine and Navalette Baily are the sole remaining residents from the first wave of Southern migration to Venice Beach.
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LAPD
Commentary
Cops Avoid Gang Detail due to Fears of Financial Disclosure
Post date:Demanding financial disclosure is making it hard for the LAPD to fill the slots in their gang detail department.