The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously passed a resolution supporting the Baldwin Hills Conservancy and opposing the California Performance Review’s (CPR) recommendation to terminate the Conservancy and its state funding. The resolution also supported Assemblywoman Karen Bass’s bill AB 856, which extends the repeal date for the Baldwin Hills Conservancy to January 1, [...]

The Center has submitted environmental justice comments regarding the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) 2004 Regional Transportation Plan.
Southern California lacks adequate public transportation. Los Angeles may be regarded as the car capital of the world, but for the working poor and other people with limited or no access to a car who depend [...]

Construction crews working for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) near the future Los Angeles River State Historic Park (the Cornfield) have unearthed portions of the Zanja Madre, the “Mother Trench” that first brought water from the Los Angeles River to El Pueblo de Los Angeles beginning in 1781. The Center has [...]

The civil rights community and the nation has lost one of its most effective and articulate advocates. Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., the civil rights attorney who helped expose widespread police brutality toward people under arrest in Los Angeles, died March 29. One of Mr. Cochran’s most important cases was freeing former Black [...]

March 25, 2005
It took a study last month by the Education Trust-West, a policy and advocacy group for disadvantaged students, to show conclusively that, even within the same districts, California schools spend less money on poor and minority students. Now, a Harvard report reveals that dropout rates among black and Latino students in California are [...]

Los Angeles Times
March 24, 2005
Nearly half of the Latino and African American students who should have graduated from California high schools in 2002 failed to complete their education, according to a Harvard University report released Wednesday.
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, the situation was even worse, with just 39% of Latinos and 47% of [...]

Public Art in the Public Park

Using a Cornfield as a Canvas for Public Art
An artist plans to sow seeds of revitalization at a blighted 32-acre plot between Chinatown and Lincoln Heights.
By Bob Pool
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 23, 2005
Is there a kernel of truth to the promise that public appreciation will grow as an unusual art project pops up at [...]

By Jennifer Radcliffe, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Daily News, Sunday, March 20, 2005, Page 1
Hundreds of nonprofit youth groups in the San Fernando Valley and across the city would have to pay to use Los Angeles Unified School District facilities and athletic fields under a district plan that critics say could force them to cancel [...]

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that as childhood obesity becomes increasingly prevalent, the current generation of children may “live less healthful and shorter lives than their parents” for the first time in United States history, reports Eloisa Gonzalez, MD, MPH, Director of the Physical Activity Program for the Los Angeles [...]