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Dr. Richard Allen Williams
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Richard Allen Williams, MD, FACC and FAHA, has made it his mission to improve the health of all people while recognizing the particular medical issues affecting African Americans and other minorities through his nonprofit organization, Minority Health ...
Angeles Echols-Brown
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Mrs. Angeles Echols-Brown and her Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization, Educating Young Minds (EYM), are building a better tomorrow for inner-city students.
Students from the Los Angeles River School explore Elysian Valley with a cartographers lens.
Standing nearly 1,300 feet tall and built partially out of magnesium, the Tower of Civilization would have soared over the grounds of the Los Angeles World's Fair. Courtesy of the Huntington Library.
"Never Built: Los Angeles" presents an alternate history -- and an alternate present -- for a place where inspirational solutions to the city's problems have often been downscaled, defeated, or altogether forgotten.
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Artists have played a large role in developing community identity and establishing a sense of place in communities with lower incomes and fewer resources.
What connects you to your community?
The object the student shares and their explanation of its significance offers physical evidence of the personal link the students have with their neighborhood.
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A rundown of public art news and stories for the month of January, 2013.
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This is what it means to have been a teacher for 30 years, as of this new January quarter.
A third generation Angeleno describes his family's tight connection to Los Angeles, from working on the railroads as a Spanish interpreter to a marriage proposal at the Point Fermin Lighthouse.
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Interview with Cathi Milligan, the owner of The Glass Studio and the Economic Development Chair on the Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council.
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The stops along Phase 2 of the Metro Expo Line light rail will be a lot more convenient than you think.
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Los Angeles as a place shapes the perspective of many local artists, whose works display the influence of their hometown.
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