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Almost every person on earth has been to a burial site in his or her lifetime. Very few, if any, would rush to think about damaging or destroying those sacred lands. But throughout American history, and even [...]

The Los Angeles Times reports on Jun 14, 2008, that United Coalition to Protect Panhe, a grassroots coalition of Native American tribal members, continues to oppose the toll road to save Panhe and San Onofre State Beach. One faction of the Juaneño band headed by David Belardes has approved a deal to receive $350,000 for [...]

“At the commission hearing, Los Angeles civil rights and environmental attorney Robert Garcia and Acjachemen activist Rebecca Robles and other Native American leaders provided a moving and passionate defense of San Onofre as a critical site for providing access to open space and recreational resources for underserved communities. The San Mateo Creek watershed is actually [...]

In 1847 Mexico and the United States signed the Treaty of Cahuenga at this site, ending the war between the two nations and ceding California to the United States.
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“It is the most important work of American art of the 19th century,” Sara Cedar Miller said.
She was referring to Central Park, not to the 3-foot by-8-foot pen-and-ink map over her shoulder. But the two are inseparable. The enormous map depicts “Greensward,” the plan by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux that won the park-design [...]

Southeasterly from the intersection of Woolsey Canyon Road and Valley Circle Boulevard, Chatsworth. The kiln provided bricks and tiles for the San Fernando Mission.
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KTLA’s Jaime Chambers interviews The City Project’s Robert Garcia. In the summer of 2007, the community demanded that the new Olympic size pool at Miguel Contreras high school be open after school and on weekends. A year later, city and school officials are telling the community to go jump in a lake. The pool will [...]

KTLA’s Jaime Chambers interviews The City Project’s Robert Garcia. In the summer of 2007, the community demanded that the new Olympic size pool at Miguel Contreras high school be open after school and on weekends. A year later, city and school officials are telling the community to go jump in a lake. The pool will [...]

Designed by Mexican architect Luis Barragan, this fountain was built in 1996.
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Dr. Ralph Bunche, the first African American Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, lived in this house during his youth.
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