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South Central
History & Society
Krump Dancers Reimagine Public Space
Post date:Every wednesday night a vacant grocery store parking lot in North Hollywood is transformed into a space for krumping, a highly expressive form of street dance born out of South Los Angeles.
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Alzheimer's
SoCal Focus
Family Valued: A Cousin and L.A. History Lost
Post date:Losing my cousin this week has been like losing a part of me -- and of L.A. history
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Arrival Story: Edgar Arceneaux
Post date:Edgar Arceneaux shares his grandfather's migration story beginning on the banks of Mississippi.
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Nostalgia
SoCal Focus
Down Memory Lane, In Living Color
Post date:Faulkner had a point--the past is never the past, especially when it's about race and reconciliation.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Mother Courage
Post date:The life and times--good and otherwise--of Lillian Mobley, mother of South Central
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UCLA
Carmageddon L.A.
1984: The Year of Catastrophic Traffic that Never Was
Post date:The summer Olympics promised hellish, round-the-clock traffic.
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SoCal Focus
'Raisin' Hell
Post date:When you're trying to make sense of black urban life in the so-called enlightened post-race era, a classic piece of theater can be stranger--and more truthful--than life.
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South Central
SoCal Focus
Middling Success
Post date:Teaching at a public urban high school that's mostly black and brown but that isn't big and unwieldy definitely has its rewards. Just ask Larry Strauss.
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Jan Perry
Commentary
Why Does it Take 20 Years to Build A Shopping Center in South Central?
Post date:The 20-year struggle to get a shopping center built at Slauson and Central reveals long-standing problems with the politics of development in L.A.
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Commentary
Old money, lost farm
Post date:The farm is gone, blighted by poverty politics, ethnic conflict, developer hubris, and sleazy land deals. But some of it lives on in San Marino.
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Latinos
Commentary
Follow
Post date:These artists made music drip, cut its head off, sewed it into quilts and laser cut it into sheets of metal.