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Alan Nishio, Board President of Little Tokyo Service Center | Photo by Justin Cram
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Alan Nishio is a highly dedicated and respected leader in the Southern California Japanese American community who has spent more than four decades working in social and civic engagement programs.
Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck is a pioneering artist and filmmaker who specializes in spoken word, personal narrative, identity exploration and pop-culture analysis.
Naomi Ackerman photo by Ed Krieger
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Naomi Ackerman draws upon her vast experience as an actress in theater, musicals, films and television to develop programs that promote peace, change and encourage self-empowerment.
daniel lieber
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Daniel Lieber, M.D. is an accomplished and renowned physician, and compassionate inter-faith relations activist.
Residents of the area fought to found their city against the expectations of regional planners, and they worked tirelessly to bring the benefits of postwar metropolitan growth to their working-class community.
Long-time political correspondent Bill Boyarsky was left wondering, "Where was the vision?" in Mayor Eric Garcetti's grand plan for Los Angeles.
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The emergence of murals in the desert city has also created conflicts regarding permits.
Los Alamitos is the odd town out when it comes to the best small towns of California, which are typically at the beach or next to a vineyard.
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For the final week of National Poetry Month, L.A. Letters spotlights four books pushing the poetic envelope.
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Not much is left on the northeast corner of First and Broadway where a series of blasts shook downtown Los Angeles to its foundations, dramatically capping off decades of class warfare and labor struggle.
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A South L.A. corner market re-opened as a healthy food hub that now offers healthy and affordable fruits and vegetables to a community that has limited options to buy fresh produce.
The grave of Frederick Douglass in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY.
Going back east to Rochester is both an escape from L.A. and an encounter with the brutally familiar.
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