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After months of intense campaigning, George McKenna's faithful gathered last week to celebrate a historic win against a better-funded opponent, Alex Johnson.
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With the proliferation of mobile phones, digital cartography has taken off as a community-building tool. Using geotags for posted photographs and status updates, people can relay valuable information about the communities they live in.
My father died behind a well-made wooden bathroom door late on the evening of August 15, 1982 (and the feast day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary).
Paul Bragg (front-right) leads his Wanderlusters Hiking Club up Mt. Hollywood in Griffith Park in 1932. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - Dick Whittington Photography Collection.
In the 1920s and '30s, health guru Paul Bragg led huge group hikes into the Hollywood Hills and San Gabriel Mountains.
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The event highlighted the girls growing knowledge and confidence. The goal of DIY Girls is to foster a new crop of young women eager to study and go into the fields of science, engineering and technology.
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For me, Epiphany Church was the first place in which I was part of a larger community that extended beyond my family. It was youth, and it's still my South El Monte.
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From a meditation on what it means to be a happy Black man, the folklore of the freeway, to the glory days of the Lakers, these four books each equally present a new perspective on well-known topics.
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South L.A. has been identified as one of the most polluted areas in the state, and its residents will live five years less than those from other parts ofLos Angeles.
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Next to the bustling MacArthur Park, the once vibrant interiors of the Westlake Theater are now silent. But all around it, there is life.
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Some things complicate how visitors engage with sites that assert the durability of meanings and memories.
The taint of political corruption has reached the West Basin Municipal Water District.
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A first generation college student reflects on the challenges and the supportive people and programs that helped her achieve her goal of attending college.
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