Lawyers for LDF from left, Louis L. Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. Hill, Thurgood Marshall and Spottswood W. Robinson III.  NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. “Robert L. Carter, a former federal judge in New York who, as a lawyer, was a leading strategist and a persuasive voice in the legal assault on [...]

Click on the text or images for more information. Save Watts Towers! LACMA New York Times Why Didn’t They Just Stop? Public Outcry Stops Excavation at El Pueblo Campo Santo Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Orange County Policy Report / Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el [...]

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak examining an early Apple circuit board (Photo courtesy of Margaret Wozniak) The City Project’s work is made possible in part by Steve Jobs’s vision.  We could not do the work we do on policy reports and graphics, our web site and blog, social media and communications without Apple technology.  We [...]

Fernando Gomez began his 18-year career as a youth-in-training with the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority Los Angeles–At a swearing-in ceremony at the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens last week, Fernando Gomez was named Chief Ranger of the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA). Chief Gomez will oversee a corps of 23 park rangers, [...]

The City Project salutes AP Reporter Jacob Adelman on his last day in Los Angeles. Jacob’s hard hitting and relentless journalism speaks truth to power and helps keep government and business honest. His national and international coverage has helped ensure that what happens in L.A. does not stay in L.A. Jacob is joining Bloomberg in [...]

I am a former federal prosecutor, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, under John Martin and Rudy Giuliani.  I have also represented two men who were sentenced to die, whose convictions we had reversed by the courts.   The court reversed the conviction in each case because the prosecution [...]

Carlos Rogel, Program Manager, Great Wall Restoration, with Judy Baca, Artistic Director, SPARC.  September 17, 2011, celebration of the restoration of the Great Wall. “SPARC . . . changed the way I spoke about ancestry, redefined what art’s role is in society and lit a fire in me to become an active participant in the [...]

From KCET Departures: KCET Departures invites you to participate in a StoryShare event at the Community Picnic Celebrating the Restoration of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. Take the opportunity to share your stories about the Great Wall, or how public murals have shaped your experiences in Los Angeles. Food trucks, music, poetry, and muralists [...]

Michael Hart, who was widely credited with creating the first e-book when he typed the Declaration of Independence into a computer on July 4, 1971, and in so doing laid the foundations for Project Gutenberg, the oldest and largest digital library, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 64. [...]

SPARC’s Artistic Director Judy Baca and Project Manager Carlos Rogel restore the Great Wall of Los Angeles in the Los Angeles River. Click here to see the Slide Show and Photo Gallery of the Great Wall Restoration by The City Project. The Great Wall restoration is rich with meaning at many levels.  The Judy Baca [...]