Unveiling of the Cesar Chavez Monument by Judy Baca SPARC California State University at San Jose, September 4, 2008

The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month March 2009. 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 [...]

California Tour 2009 Pasadena Rose Bowl Break Away Pack Martin Elmiger AG2R-La Mondiale, Markus Zberg BMC, Christian Vande Velde Garmin-Slipstream 700 Miles of Pain. Photo by The City Project/Robert García Creative Commons. Comments Candice (Bessie Smith)   says: This is awesome. – Seen next to a fellow photo of Top 20 Los Angeles. (?) Posted 5 [...]

The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month March 2009. The Woman’s Club of Hollywood building was designed by Arthur E. Harvey and constructed in 1948 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Before housing the Woman’s Club of Hollywood, founded in 1905, It had been the Hollywood School for Girls, with Jean Harlow, Carol Lombard and [...]

Goin’ to the chapel and we’re gonna get married Goin’ to the chapel and we’re gonna get married Gee, I really love you and we’re gonna get married Goin’ to the Chapel of Love Spring is here, the sky is blue Whoa, birds all sing as if they knew Today’s the day We’ll say, “I [...]

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Mourns the Passing of John Hope Franklin By John Payton  John Hope Franklin’s service to scholarship, to the black freedom struggle and the expansion of opportunity in the United States, and to America as a whole is profound, perhaps even incalculable. He was a historian of the first [...]

Apologies for the late notice, but WCVI was just alerted to a letter the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) is preparing to send to California Attorney General Jerry Brown urging him to write to a letter brief for a case currently before the California Supreme Court arguing that position that Proposition 209 – which [...]

New York Times, March 26, 2009 By RONI CARYN RABIN Ninth graders whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet are more likely to be obese than students whose schools are a quarter of a mile or more away, according to a study of millions of schoolchildren by economists at the University of [...]

The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month March 2009. The 32 foot high steel cross was erected in 1923 and dedicated to the memory of Christine Witherall Stevenson, one of the founders of the Hollywood Bowl. Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign. Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

By Richard Simon and Bettina Boxall Los Angeles Times March 26, 2009 Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington Bettina Boxall — Congress on Wednesday approved the largest expansion of the wilderness system in 15 years, bestowing the highest level of federal protection on 2 million acres in nine states and launching one of the most [...]