KNX 1070 News Radio’s Michael Lindner conducts exclusive interviews on the Baldwin Hills oil field with members of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance and others. Listen to the KNX broadcast.

Learn more at www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.

Editorial Downtown News June 30, 2008
Contreras School Pool a Squandered Opportunity
Stakeholders in City West and adjacent communities received dispiriting news last week, when city and Los Angeles Unified School District officials announced that the swimming pool at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex once again will be off-limits to the general public this year. This is [...]

Senator Applauds Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance for Development of Oil Field Community Standards
Monday, June 23, 2008
Senator cites CSD as “the Quintessence of Citizen Empowerment”

LOS ANGELES –Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles/Culver City) today commended representatives of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance (GBHA) on the occasion of a GBHA press conference announcing the release of their Baldwin [...]

ASSEMBLYMEMBER KAREN BASS 47TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT For Immediate Release: June 23, 2008 Contact: Richard Stapler Phone: (916) 319-2047 Speaker Karen Bass Issues Statement on the Environmental Impact Report Regarding Oil Drilling in the Baldwin Hills Region LOS ANGELES —- Speaker Karen Bass issues the following statement regarding the release of the Environmental Impact Report for [...]

Built in 1915 by the members’ husbands, the clubhouse is one of the few large-scale Craftsman structures in Los Angeles.
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Diverse allies have filed a Williams complaint with the Los Angeles Unified School District to remedy physical education deficiencies. Physical education teacher vacancies, misassignments, and lack of subject matter competency are recurring problems in various schools from semester to semester and year to year. Teacher deficiencies are part of a pattern and practice by LAUSD [...]

The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance draft Community Standards District will protect human health and the environment for the community and the Baldwin Hills Park, the largest urban park designed in the United States in over a century. Visit www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.

Built in 1927, this building has social significance as the sole physical reminder in Los Angeles of the Temperance and Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Learn more about Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy.
Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

Professor Josh Sides describes the unique role of the Baldwin Hills in the history of African Americans in Los Angeles and across the nation:
By the late 1950s and early 1960s, blacks had pushed west and south of West Adams into Leimert Park and the exclusive area of Baldwin Hills, which quickly became the heart of [...]

Residents Ask County to Protect the Environment & Community Health
Moratorium on new oil drilling expires June 30th
LOS ANGELES, CA — Surrounded by the neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Vista, Culver City, Crenshaw, Leimert Park, Ladera Heights, Inglewood, View Park and Windsor Hills, the two-square-mile Baldwin Hills Oil Field is the last large-scale undeveloped open space [...]