The Los Angeles Times reports: The National Park Service is extending its program of grant funding to support projects at Japanese American confinement sites, the third year of the initiative. More than $3 million is budgeted for the program, which aims to preserve and encourage education at the detainment camps where 120,000 Japanese Americans were held after Japan attacked [...]

Click on each image to see more details. ASCOT HILLS PARK WATCH AND COUNTDOWN! ENFORCING PHYSICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1956 President’s Council on Physical Fitness COCHABAMBA WORLD PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING AND RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH “KEEP BALDWIN HILLS CLEAN AND GREEN FOR GENERATATIONS TO COME” KRESGE FOUNDATION “A REMARKABLE MOMENT IN [...]

Click on the image to learn more about the Los Angeles State Historic Park State Parks Department to Unveil $18 Million Plan for 32-Acre Attraction by Richard Guzmán Downtown News Friday, December 3, 2010 5:08 PM PST DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – California State Parks Superintendent Sean Woods could hardly contain his excitement last week as [...]

Ascot Hills Park was set to open by the end of 2005. This photograph was taken on October 30, 2010 — 152 days until the Ascot Hills Park is completed, 138 days since the second (?) groundbreaking for the park, 1,823 days — that’s right, almost five years — after the first groundbreaking, and 80 [...]

Founding Director of The City Project Earns Prestigious Public Health Honor November 9, 2010 DENVER — Robert García, founding director and counsel of the Los Angeles-based nonprofit The City Project, has received the American Public Health Association’s prestigious Presidential Citation, recognizing García’s work empowering underserved communities throughout California. Past recipients of the award include Nelson [...]

With so many public traces gone, it would seem that final accountings might be frustrated. That might be true of the ones that got away, but not all lists of names have disappeared. The Chinese Los Angelenos who were killed on October 24, 1871 were not nameless. The Los Angeles Daily News printed a record [...]

A History of Chinese Americans in California: HISTORIC SITES Los Angeles Massacre Site Los Angeles, Los Angeles County The Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judy Baca © and SPARC. The streets in the area of the Los Angeles Massacre have been changed, and the location of Nigger Alley (no longer in existence) is within [...]

Simon Rodia, an Italian immigrant and master cement mason, built the Watts Towers by himself over the course of 34 years from 1921 to 1954, using his own design, labor, materials and money. The City of Los Angeles has owned Watts Towers since 1975.   After 35 years, including a lawsuit in 1985, the City [...]

31% of children in San Diego are overweight or obese. Simply stated, overweight and obesity are part of a health crisis in San Diego. Map SD-3 shows that the rates of child obesity are high throughout the San Diego region. This map also shows that the highest concentrations of obese children are in the southwestern [...]

Despite vast amounts of green space in San Diego County, not all residents have equal access to these resources.  The most park poor areas of the region are also the areas with the highest concentrations of low income households and people of color. In fact, there are few areas in the region with high concentrations [...]