The community celebrated the Grand Opening of the Raul Macias Futsal Court at the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens on January 24, 2009.
A native of Guadalajara, Mexico, Raul Macias founded Anahuak Youth Sports Association in 1997 to give children in communities close to the Los Angeles River in Northeast Los Angeles opportunities to succeed [...]

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Labeled by historian Leonard Pitt as the “last of the great American railroad stations,” Union Station was built on the site of Old Chinatown on Los Angeles and Alameda Streets. The City destroyed Old Chinatown and uprooted Los Angeles’s burgeoning Chinese community to build the station in the 1930s. Approved by a 1926 city [...]

David Remnick, Editor-in-Chief 
The New Yorker Magazine
Via email www.newyorker.com/contact/letterToEditor 
Dear Mr. Remnick: 
Mr. Remnick, have you compared the January 26, 2009, cover of the New Yorker showing Barack Obama wearing a wig like the Founding Fathers wore — with the image by Latino artist Lalo Alcaraz of Barack Obama wearing a wig like the Founding Fathers wore?  It seems [...]

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 Court held that slaves were not people protected by the United States Constitution in the Dred Scott case. Ms. Mason became a [...]

Dedicated in 1923, the Union Church of Los Angeles was the first house of worship in Los Angeles for Protestant Japanese Americans built for their purpose.
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Diversity, and Democracy campaign.
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Governor Schwarznegger and Sacramento officials have stopped payment on grants and contracts for shovel ready public works projects approved by the voters that would help put the state and nation to work buiding healthy, livable communities for all.  California should not slash spending during the worst economic crisis since the Depression, at the expense of the [...]

The Great Wall of Los Angeles Copyright Judith Baca and SPARC.

January 14, 2008
President Barack Obama
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Re:  Economic Stimulus, Public Works, and Equal Justice: Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities for All
Dear President Obama:
Economic stimulus and public works projects must get the nation to work building healthy, livable communities for all.  Concrete and steel, and bailouts for banks, insurance companies, and automakers, are not enough.  [...]

School Resegregation and Civil Rights Challenges for the Obama Administration:
A New Report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA
Los Angeles–As the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and the Inauguration of
this nation’s first African American President approach, the nation is in a
celebratory mood about progress on race relations.  The election of Barack
Obama is a breakthrough that [...]