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Street vendor walking by a mural depicting children holding hands on W. Temple St. (Photo by Ricardo Dearatanha/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Street vendors rely on informal "micro-economies" to sustain their families while their children endure uncertainty as city officials remain indecisive as to how to legalize street vending.
This 1956 Shell Oil roadmap highlights L.A.'s freeways in orange. Note that each freeway bears several route numbers -- one reason why Angelenos initially referred to freeways by name rather than number. Courtesy of the David Rusmey Map Collection.
How did Southern Californians come to treat their highway route numbers as if they were proper names?
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"Just think: that baby that you covered when they were cold or fed when they were hungry, that is the same one that's telling you they're trans, or gay."
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.
Postcard view of Patton State Hospital
During the early years of Patton State Hospital, some patients were restored to sanity, some escaped, and others simply succumbed to their fate.
Demonstrators shout slogans during a march in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 23, 2014 to protest the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Photo by: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
In the last two years, Black Lives Matter has emerged organically as one of the most important movements of this era to address state-sanctioned violence against Black people.
Aerial view of UC Irvine in Dec. 1967. Courtesy of the Special Collections and Archives, UC Irvine Libraries.
UC Irvine's campus, now 50 years old, was unlike any that preceded it.
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Undocumented community members are locked out of affordable, quality healthcare
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This semester I met Cecilia, a retired nurse and Lupus patient. Because of her condition she has needed health care nearly all her life.
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A team of teenage girls advocate for community health and safety through social media and peer-to-peer education.
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Clínica Monseñor Romero provides quality, affordable and culturally sensitive health care services to a predominantly low-income, monolingual Spanish-speaking uninsured Latino population
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The Wellness Center was created from a dream that consisted of a space where the community would have access to a variety of services that would be beneficial to their well-being.
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