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Power and Health
Power & Health
Liquor Stores, Dispensaries and Smoke Shops: Our Neighborhood Is Killing Us
Post date:While Los Angeles has the reputation of being a city of dreams, its urban landscape has become a nightmare for Black and Brown residents. Learn how South L.A. has developed in a way that's detrimental to its residents and what's being done about it.
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Broken Bread
Broken Bread
Earle's: A Hot Dog Cart Becomes a Neighborhood Institution
Post date:In the more than 30 years since Earl's first launched as a hot dog cart, it has become a neighborhood institution that has fed multiple generations of locals — vegans and non-vegans alike.
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Coded Geographies
Lost LA
The 'Green Book' Guided Black Travelers Through Jim Crow America (And to L.A.)
Post date:First published in 1936, "The Negro Motorist Green Book" helped African-American motorists safely navigate Jim Crow America.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Historic South Central and the Blk Grrrl Book Fair
Post date:This week L.A. Letters spotlights an upcoming feminist book fair in Historic South Central Los Angeles, as well as the gallery space hosting the event.
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environment
Departures
Land Use in South L.A.: A Legacy of Environmental Crime
Post date:The health and environmental challenges faced by South L.A. communities is tied to the history of 20th century race-based urban planning policies.
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South Los Angeles
SoCal Focus
L.A.'s Notorious Drug Dealer, 'Freeway' Rick Ross, is Moving On
Post date:The 54-year-old former drug lord of South Central is still in the business -- of self-fulfillment and community improvement, that is.
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parks
Lost LA
How Did Los Angeles Lose its Not-So-Central Park?
Post date:Though it served its community for 27 years, privately owned Central Park in South Los Angeles was eventually carved up and sold off as individual housing lots.
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SoCal Focus
The Watts Riots: School Photos Before and After
Post date:Memories of grade school are usually warm and fuzzy. Except when they also tell a story of integration that never had a chance.
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neighborhoods
SoCal Focus
Does Internal Immigration Warrant Cultural Neighborhood Names?
Post date:Little Saigon and other places like it have transformed space in SoCal.
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Jan Perry
Redefine
L.A. City Council Member Wants Fairer Solar Incentives
Post date:L.A. City Council member Jan Perry is calling for DWP to make a solar incentive program more democratic.
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backyard parties
History & Society
Compton as the Bellwether for Urban America
Post date:Rap group N.W.A. glorified Compton as ground zero of urban Black life -- while at the same time the city's demographics showed a shift towards a Latino majority.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Stumped: Not Thrilled About Cutting 400 Trees for a Space Shuttle
Post date:Losing hundreds of trees in Inglewood and South Central to create a temporary path for a space shuttle is the unkindest cut.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
City's on Fire: Remembering the Watts Riots
Post date:Where were you August 11, 1965? Musician Brian O'Neal remembers, in song and story, the day everything changed.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Sandow Birk: My SoCal Art History
Post date:To trace the trajectory of Southern California art, Artbound is creating a collective timeline comprised of the decisive events that shaped artists' creative development. Today we talk to Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk.
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South Central
SoCal Focus
Back In the Day: What's Changed and What Hasn't
Post date:Memorial Day was an occasion for me to remember -- not the war dead, but the price of social victory discussed at a backyard reunion of childhood friends.
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block by block
History & Society
Happy Foot Sad Foot: Walking South Central to Silver Lake
Post date:In his new column Block by Block, modern day cartographer Eric Brightwell explores the various neighborhoods of L.A. on foot, bus, or train.
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SoCal Focus
Holes in the Ground: What Was Really Built in Post-Riot South L.A.?
Post date:Inspired development, to say nothing of redevelopment, didn't really happen after 1992. But then, what did you expect?
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Inglewood
SoCal Focus
Not Feeling It: A Group of Inglewood Students on Trayvon Martin
Post date:The case of Trayvon Martin may be outraging the nation, but in my Inglewood classroom he's just another one of us.
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Jessica Koslow
History & Society
Getting Back to The Essence of Krump
Post date:The economic and social conditions of South Central Los Angeles at the turn of the 21st century contributed to the brewing of repressed emotions and explosive atmosphere that birthed the essence of krump.
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Rodney King
SoCal Focus
Quiet Riot: Changes, or the Lack Thereof, Since L.A.'s Upheaval in April 1992
Post date:What's the legacy of April 1992? Bet you haven't thought about it lately, to say nothing of the last twenty years.