On October 24, 1871, a mob of 500 lynched 19 Chinese on Calle de Los Negros in El Pueblo. The massacre brought the first national and international attention to Los Angeles. The site of the massacre is now a streetlight. Read Dr. Munson Kwok’s Statement of Remembrance on behalf of the Chinese American Museum. The [...]

The City Project is working with the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance to help make the dream come true for the transition from active oil fields to the Baldwin Hills Park. The Community Standards District (CSD) regulations and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) should promote these goals.
The Baldwin Hills Park Master Plan envisions a two-square mile park [...]

Going Down the Road
Zora’s Home

By DAMIEN CAVE

September 28, 2008

Eatonville, Fla. Hidden in the theme-park sprawl of greater Orlando, a few miles from the shiny, the loud and the gargantuan, lies a quiet town where the pride and complications of the African-American experience come to life.
Eatonville, the first all-black town to incorporate [...]

“It’s in the lexicon of society, that joke,” said David Stoughton, a park ranger at the General Grant National Memorial. “Groucho Marx on ‘You Bet Your Life’ used to say it. He’d asked the second-place contestant, ‘Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?’ It’s a trick question, because General Grant is here in the building, but [...]

Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park commemorates Colonel Allen Allensworth and the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town in 1908. Colonel Allensworth, born a slave, served in the Army and Navy and retired as lieutenant colonel, the highest ranking black in the armed forces. [...]

The site of the Sa-angna burial ground was a major village and burial ground of the Tongva/Gabrieleño Native Americans circa 1540 and contains remains of tools, jewelry and weapons.
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Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park commemorates Colonel Allen Allensworth and the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town in 1908. Colonel Allensworth, born a slave, served in the Army and Navy and retired as lieutenant colonel, the highest ranking black in the armed forces. [...]

Louis Robles of Long Beach, an American Indian activist was there in support the fight to stop the toll road. His daughter Rebecca Robles, Co-Director of the United Coalition to Protect Panhe, was one of the speakers that spoke against building the toll road through Panhe, a 9000 year old native American village the the [...]

Chinese American Museum in El Pueblo de Los Angeles
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Honoring the Sea
Festival Closing Ceremony
Santa Monica Beach at the end of Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica
Sunday, September 28 ~ 3pm-sundown (6:41pm)
FREE and outdoors.
Info: 310-825-0507
http://www.festivalofsacredmusic.org/0928Closing.html
Three hundred artists will present sacred traditions from seven lineages of world cultures. The opening procession will resound with the festive sounds of the brass Banda Juvenil Solaga from Oaxaca and the [...]