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 [...]

KTLA’s Jaime Chambers interviews The City Project’s Robert Garcia. In the summer of 2007, the community demanded that the new Olympic size pool at Miguel Contreras high school be open after school and on weekends. A year later, city and school officials are telling the community to go jump in a lake. The pool will [...]

Spencer Weiner L.A. Times.
In the summer of 2007, the community demanded that the new Olympic size pool at Miguel Contreras high school be open after school and on weekends. Miguel Contreras is in the most park-poor assembly district in the state of California — a community where 65% of the population within three miles [...]

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The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) calls for public transportation to improve access for all to parks throughout Southern California in the 2008 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) Environmental Justice Report.
In response to public comments by The City Project and others calling for healthy parks, schools, and communties, SCAG conducted additional and new analysis on access [...]

Most parents consider outdoor activities very important, yet less than half are very satisfied with the amount of time spent outdoors.
Although 44% of parents say they are very satisfied with the outdoor opportunities available for their teenager, 36% say they are only somewhat satisfied, and 19% say they are dissatisfied. Whites (55%) are much more [...]

San Onofre State Beach needs your help! The toll road backers in Orange County are appealing to the federal government to override the Coastal Commission and get special approval to build their toll road through San Onofre State Beach.
Send a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, urging him to deny the toll road appeal.
You’ll [...]

View images of the 28 acre site of Griffith Park on the East Bank of the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village — which could be the Next Great Urban Park in Los Angeles.
Central Service Yard Opportunity Site
Reclaiming Griffith Park’s Lost Acreage for Public Enjoyment
By Jeff Gardener and Bernadette Soter,
Members Griffith Park Master Plan Working [...]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has documented that obesity among school children in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD) has increased from 20.2% in 1999 to 26.1%in 2006, going from 1 in 5 children being obese to over 1 in 4. The percentage of overweight school children has generally been increasing [...]