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The Most Important Neighborhood In LA?

Los Angeles Daily News | Dakota Smith | Posted 04.01.2013 | Los Angeles

Weeks after the primary election, a faded "Jan Perry for Mayor" sign still hangs outside Laura Hendrix's art gallery in Leimert Park Village in South ...

Old Skool Los Angeles: When Everybody Did the Hustle

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 09.09.2012 | Los Angeles
Linnie Frank Bailey

'Hustling' was more than just a song and dance in L.A.'s working class neighborhoods. It was also a way of life, and hustling was a term commonly used to describe doing whatever it took to bring in additional income.

Henry Watson Returns To Florence & Normandie

AP | JOHN ROGERS and AMY TAXIN | Posted 06.25.2012 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES -- Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it. It was a day that...

Loss of Two USC Students From China and Their American Dream

Noel Irwin Hentschel | Posted 06.19.2012 | Los Angeles
Noel Irwin Hentschel

How many more senseless violent crimes will it take to realize that children in our inner cities are dying? Generations are being lost but it is preventable, if we demonstrate that we care and we take action.

Schools Must Pull Kids in, Not Turn Them Away

Robert Ross | Posted 05.30.2012 | Home
Robert Ross

For each day that a young person is suspended from school, his or her educational attainment experiences a setback.

An Unsafe School Is No School At All

Larry Strauss | Posted 01.04.2012 | Home
Larry Strauss

I'm pretty sure that if students at a suburban high school ever found themselves in the kind of danger in which South L.A. students routinely find themselves some state of emergency would be declared.

RENEWing LA Through CicLAvia

Joel Epstein | Posted 12.13.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

The partnership between RENEW and CicLAvia is a natural fit -- two critical parts of the solution to LA's epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Rep. Maxine Waters: The Tea Party Can Go Straight To Hell!

Wendy Carrillo | Posted 10.24.2011 | Los Angeles
Wendy Carrillo

Waters took a stab at Congressional leadership who have caved to the unrealistic demands of the Tea Party -- demands that don't reflect the values, issues or concerns of a vast majority of Americans.

Vacuous Verdicts

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 09.12.2011 | Los Angeles
Linnie Frank Bailey

Perplexing verdicts, such as from the Casey Anthony case, are a frequent occurrence for Americans, Angelenos included. We accept that they are just part of our judicial system and hope that one day justice will be served.

Summertime Living Is Easy

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 08.06.2011 | Los Angeles
Linnie Frank Bailey

Let's face it -- this is the summer of 'staycations.' However, as bad as things are, the dog days of summer don't have to be spent lamenting your dismal finances and wishing you were in St. Thomas.

Neighboring Downey Distances Itself From Bell Scandal By Firing City Attorney

Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

In light of Bell residents' recent outrage over the city's salaries, Downey's city council voted yesterday to sever ties with their city attorney Ed L...

Own a Piece of Art History: Mark Bradford Merchant Posters

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Bettina Korek

Born in Los Angeles and raised in his mother's hair salon in Leimert Park, Mark Bradford learned at an early age the rudimentary tools of his art: calligraphy, signage, and handicraft.

What's Happening in Compton City Hall? An Introduction to Routine Chaos

Emily Henry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Emily Henry

On a Tuesday afternoon in January, the Compton City Council chambers are full to the brim with concerned citizens, guests, and business owners. Except for the mayor.