Miguel Contreras wouldn’t like this
The Miguel Contreras Learning Complex is one of LAUSD’s newest, most gleaming schools — even if it did take Craigslist intervention to open the swimming pool to the public last summer. There was also the indignity of getting a six-lane running track instead of the usual eight, due to space limitations. [...]

Transit to Trails visited the Wishtoyo Foundation’s Chumash Demonstration Village Project in Malibu on April 26, 2008.

The Village will consist of the creation of an outdoor working Native American village on a four-acre site at Nicholas Canyon County Beach in Malibu, creating the only living Chumash cultural village of its kind in Southern California.
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UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

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April 28: In Sickness and In Wealth
May 5: When the Bough Breaks and Becoming American
May 12: Bad Sugar and Place Matters
May 19: Collateral Damage and Not Just a [...]

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival features Native American tribes performing an intertribal dance at the Louisiana Native National Tent on April 25, 2008.

Learn more about The City Project’s Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.

The California Department of Parks and Recreation has published a study based on the public’s need to become more aware of California’s cultural diversity and its tangible manifestations on the land. Five Views: An Ethnic Sites Survey for California (1988) can serve as a best practice example guide for cultural and heritage monuments that celebrate [...]

The Central Avenue Jazz Park across the street from the Dunbar Hotel in South Los Angeles, and a tile mural created by community youths in the Park, commemorate the Golden Age of Jazz in Los Angeles. The Park and tile mural are a best practice example of a cultural, historical, or artistic resource that celebrates [...]

The Little Tokyo Historic District is a National Historic Landmark and public art project that honors Japanese Americans, their history and neighborhood. Located on 1st Street between San Pedro Street and Central Avenue, Little Tokyo was home to the first Japanese in Los Angeles. They began arriving in the 1860s to fill the need for [...]

The children of the Anahuak Youth Association planted trees and kicked off the 2008 soccer season on April 19 to celebrate the first anniversary of the opening of the Rio de Los Angeles State Park at Taylor Yard as part of the greening of the Los Angeles River. Anahuak and The City Project worked with [...]

The Biddy Mason Wall is a best practice example of the kind of cultural, historical, and artistic monument that Los Angeles should celebrate.

Born a slave in Mississippi in 1818, Biddy Mason walked behind her owner’s wagon, first to Utah then to Los Angeles. A federal judge freed her in 1856, before the United States Supreme [...]