View the New York Times slide show of Rosa Parks.

Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick published her audit of the Planning Department on October 31, 2005, with the following cover letter to city officials.
Dear Mayor Villaraigosa, City Attorney Delgadillo, Councilmembers:
No government entity is more responsible for establishing the look and feel of Los Angeles than the Department of City Planning. In 1991 the [...]

Join Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others on November 1, 2005, at 10:00AM to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Ascot Hills Park. The new park at Ascot Hills will green one of the most park-poor areas in the region. Through a creative partnership between the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the City of [...]

By: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Civil Rights Project of Harvard University, and the Center for Study of Race and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
More and more school districts, encouraged by parents, are coming to realize the value of racial and ethnic diversity in our public schools. This [...]

Los Angeles Times
By George Ramos
Times Staff Writer
Edward R. Roybal, a pioneer in Latino politics in Los Angeles and a godfather and mentor to scores of lawmakers, died Monday of pneumonia, according to the district office of his daughter, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Los Angeles). He was 89.
Roybal, who championed the rights of the underprivileged and the [...]

By E. R. SHIPP
New York Times
October 25, 2005
Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s, died yesterday at her [...]

What does Catholic Social Teaching say about the environment? What should the Catholic Church be doing to improve local communities and the environment? Attend this Environmental Justice Symposium sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the San Fernando Regional Pastoral Council, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Office of Justice and Peace, and [...]

New York Times
October 21, 2005
Editorial
Year after year, Americans express greater satisfaction with the National Park Service than with almost any other aspect of the federal government. From the point of view of most visitors, there is no incentive to revise the basic management policy that guides park superintendents, a policy that was last revised in [...]

Help keep public access open for all to the Big Wild in the Santa Monica Mountains near the Sepulveda Pass, ungated and unrestricted, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The Big Wild is a 21,000 acre urban wilderness with a continuous network of green space and trails stretching from the San Fernando [...]