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Walking through Sycamore Grove offered the students a unique opportunity to learn about a place and history that the majority of them, and most Angelenos, are not familiar with.
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An intensive 12-hour hack-a-thon provided students the opportunity to learn and utilize coding skills to build websites.
Regional boosters held up South Park, seen here circa 1911, as an example of Southern California's semitropical abundance. Courtesy of the South Bay History Collection, CSUDH Archives.
Established in 1899, this 19-acre park in South Los Angeles was once touted as an example of Southern California's "semitropical abundance."
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What does it mean to be a walker in this imperfect city?
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This week L.A. Letters spotlights several contemporary Asian American poets by previewing two events on Asian American Poetry.
Mother and son.
One day an imperfect son who has been raised by a perfect mother will give anything to have another brush of a kiss.
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Discriminatory zero tolerance policies that criminalize young men of color and push students out is a reality Eastside students know too well.
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The 40-foot-long mural project along the busy South Fork Trail is nearing completion ahead of schedule, thanks to the enthusiastic support from the community.
At a Donald Sterling protest next to Staples Center, home of Sterling's L.A. Clippers.
Everybody's outraged about Donald Sterling's views of black people and happy that he's gone. But what he really represents is going nowhere.
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The muralists who painted the walls for the 1984 Games exchanged hugs and stories last weekend like victorious Olympians.
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The emerging film industry and El Monte's Gay's Lion Farm shaped a bizarre period of exoticism surrounding the Whittier Narrows.
Students find a vacuum cleaner during the 2013 Los Angeles River Clean-Up.  <em>Photo courtesy of the L.A. River School</em>
The Los Angeles River is a significant part of our community, help us make it something we can all be proud to call our own.
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