Diverse allies have filed a Williams complaint with the Los Angeles Unified School District to remedy physical education deficiencies. Physical education teacher vacancies, misassignments, and lack of subject matter competency are recurring problems in various schools from semester to semester and year to year. Teacher deficiencies are part of a pattern and practice by LAUSD [...]

The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance draft Community Standards District will protect human health and the environment for the community and the Baldwin Hills Park, the largest urban park designed in the United States in over a century. Visit www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.

Built in 1927, this building has social significance as the sole physical reminder in Los Angeles of the Temperance and Women’s Suffrage Movement. Learn more about Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy. Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

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 [...]

Completed in 1928, the Dunbar Hotel stood at the center of African-American social, musical, and artistic life from the 1920s to the 1960s. Read more about the jazz scene under the Heritage Parkscape. Learn more about Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy. Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

Professor Josh Sides describes the unique role of the Baldwin Hills in the history of African Americans in Los Angeles and across the nation: By the late 1950s and early 1960s, blacks had pushed west and south of West Adams into Leimert Park and the exclusive area of Baldwin Hills, which quickly became the heart [...]

Residents Ask County to Protect the Environment & Community Health Moratorium on new oil drilling expires June 30th LOS ANGELES, CA — Surrounded by the neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Vista, Culver City, Crenshaw, Leimert Park, Ladera Heights, Inglewood, View Park and Windsor Hills, the two-square-mile Baldwin Hills Oil Field is the last large-scale undeveloped [...]

The Mary Andrews Clark residence was built by Senator William Andrews Clark of Montana in 1913 as a memorial to his mother. Learn more about Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy. Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

C.B.A. (Clark Brown Audio) Studios played an important role in African American recording history. Learn more about Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy. Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

Constructed as a museum for the Hispanic Society, this 1917 adobe was completely hand-built by Jose Velazquez and features a central courtyard fountain. Learn more about Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy. Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.