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Since the 1980s Leimert Plaza has been a go-to community space for the African American community.
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Here are photos from Highland Park's Franklin High yearbooks through the years, showing the changes in student body demographics, along with fashion and hair trends of the day.
Judy Sugita and other Nisei Week Queen candidates at a campaign event in 1953 | Photo courtesy of Judy Sugita
Here's a photographic look back at past Queens, and how their roles have changed over the years.
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Tomás Sanchez once owned the land of present day Baldwin Hills and Leimert Park. While deep in the throes of research, a small aspect of this man's life struck a chord: his need to secede.
Portrait of Tomás Sanchez | Courtesy of the USC Libraries California Historical Society Collection
Tomás Avila Sanchez inherited Rancho La Cienega o Paso de La Tijera from his grandfather Vicente Sanchez, a powerful and cantankerous old Don from the Pueblo days
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How do you play the L.A. River at Hollydale Park?
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El Monte has produced numerous writers, including Benita Morgan Bishop who documents 1970s El Monte through the wide-eyed perspective of her young narrator.
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The first-ever rock camp in Huntington Park hosted over 26 children ages 8-17, for a week of band practice and workshops that focused on local social and environmental issues to build critical thinking skills.
"Any kids want to blow the whistle?" asks Bob Bryant, a conductor for the Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line in San Pedro.It is a sunny Sunday…
Venice West Cafe, popular among the Beats, inspired a counterculture that swept the streets of Venice, forever changing the neighborhood's cultural background.
On a hot, dusty corner in San Gabriel, just south of the rumble from the train tracks the San Gabriel / Nursery & Florist's large sign towers over the…
Since 1966, the Watts Summer Festival was created by antipoverty organizers and black nationalists to celebrate culture and heritage.<br />
In the 50 years since the Watts Rebellion and given recent social unrest foddered by racial and socio-economic disparities, what has changed in our local…
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