Neighborhood children celebrated Earth Day by planting trees on April 19, 2008, at the new Vista Hermosa Nature Park adjoining the new Edward R. Roybal High School in Pico Union, one of the most park-starved communities in California. The Park will open July 19, 2008!
Vista Hermosa Park is located in Assembly District 45 (DeLeon). There [...]

Photo by Nic Garcia
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Little Tokyo’s Aoyama Tree designated a monument
The 60-foot tall Moreton Bay Fig symbolizes the founding of the Koyasan Buddhist Temple in downtown Los Angeles in 1920.

By Joanna Lin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
12:50 PM PDT, July 17, 2008

Los [...]

Park on Long-Troubled Belmont Learning Center Site to Open This Week
by Anna Scott
July 14, 2008
This week, City West will get a lot greener with the debut of a 10-acre park. If some people thought it might never arrive, that’s understandable: It is opening on a notorious site where construction first began a decade ago.
Still, it [...]

The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building was home to one of the five largest African-American-owned insurance companies in the United States. In 1928, using all African American design and labor, the company built a two story building at 4261 Central Avenue in South Central Los Angeles where the firm occupied the top floor while [...]

The residence of Mary Foy, the first woman to hold the office of City Librarian for Los Angeles in 1880.
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The First African Methodist Episcopol Zion Cathedral is an example of Romanesque revival style and housed one of the early African American congregations in Los Angeles.

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Without a name, former ‘South Central’ L.A. has become almost invisible
The South L.A. area was once a thriving hub of jazz and African American culture. Now its residents can hardly describe where they are.
By Jill Leovy, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 7, 2008
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Patrolled by the Newton Station, the area has the highest poverty [...]

Fifty years ago this week, Los Angeles voters narrowly OK’d a ballot measure approving the city’s gift of land near Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers’ Walter O’Malley to build his stadium. Read the rest of this post at L.A. Observed.
The Times published detailed results of the Chavez Ravine ballot initiative that showed just how close [...]

The First African Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1872. In 1903 construction was completed on a Gothic-style structure based on a design by English architect Sir Christopher Wren. The building was destroyed by fire in 1976.
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Built in 1942, this was the City’s first fire station to be staffed exclusively by African-Americans.

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