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In his writings, the people and places of southeast Los Angeles -- his eternal backyard -- come through with heat and lyric: the bare truth of the everyday.
How do you play the L.A. River at Downey Recreation Center?
We hope the garden can be a tool to inform and educate residents and students on the importance of community agriculture, alternative food options, and better nutrition.
This week L.A. Letters looks at the works of writer Chester Himes and how he candidly mapped Los Angeles and the social relationships that defined the city.
Reflections on Black History Month
According to Break the Cycle, a leading national nonprofit organization working to provide comprehensive dating abuse programs exclusively to young people "Dating abuse is a pattern of abusive behaviors -- usually a series of abusive behaviors over a c...
While planners are seeking community engagement throughout the planning process, community organizations are also taking it upon themselves to ensure that their voices are heard.
Everybody who was anybody in the jazz world stayed at South Central's Dunbar Hotel, where "the future of black America was discussed every night of the week in the lobby".
Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte has been called the "Disneyland of the 1920s and '30s," but few traces of its wild past remain.
Happening upon the Little Jewel is a transporting blast of New Orleans, smack in the middle of old Los Angeles. But this marriage of place and cuisine isn't as unconventional as it might at first seem.
How do you play the L.A. River in Cudahy?