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 City Project requests that the Cultural Heritage Commission make clear the implications for diversifying access to and support for Griffith Park before voting on any monument designation.  Monument status should be conferred if but only if it will promote diversifying access to and support for Griffith Park.
At the present time members of the public [...]

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There’s been much controversy about the boom in oil drilling around Baldwin Hills, where residents say the oil wells are noisy, unsightly and potentially unhealthy. Well, L.A. County officials now have an idea for dealing with the unsightly part: Plant [...]

Modeled after a church in Barcelona, Spain, the Cathedral of St. Vibiana was the first cathedral for the Roman Catholic Archdioceses of Monterey and Los Angeles. It was constructed between 1871 and 1876, when 3,000 of Los Angeles’s 5,500 residents were Catholic. Cardinal Roger Mahony proposed that the Cathedral be torn down after it was [...]

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. [...]

Chinatown’s first location in Los Angeles was around Calle de los Negros (”Nigger Alley”), a rundown street that was home to brothels and plagued by crime. The earliest Chinese began arriving in 1850 in search of gold. By 1900, Old Chinatown was a mostly-male ghetto because the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented immigration of women. In [...]

The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance is demanding that the Baldwin Hills oil field regulations be consistent with the Final Environmental Report that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved on October 21, 2008, and the actions of the Regional Planning Commission.  The Board is scheduled to take action on October 28, 2008.
In order to [...]

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ON CALIFORNIA ESSAYS FROM THE GOLDEN STATE
Founded as a black utopian colony, Allensworth today is far from it
The California town was established by a former slave. The history is preserved in a state park, but blight is rampant in the adjacent community. One [...]

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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. [...]