A long awaited audit released by Los Angeles County officials found that the Board of Supervisors often use behind-the-scenes levers to control the inner workings of the Regional Planning Department, whose decisions are key to hotly contested battles over development, environmental protections and code enforcement. . . . And former Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke’s planning [...]

The City Project celebrates Black History Month Gerald M. Boyd’s memoir, “My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times,” opens with the author waking from a dream. Heart racing, he reflects on a life — a remarkable Horatio Alger-like rise from “stifling poverty” to a senior post among the [...]

64 El Pueblo Plaza de Los Angeles This historic public space was laid out in 1818. The present location is the third and final location, having moved there in the mid 1800s. Often ringed in for Sunday bullfights in the 1830s and 1840s, the Plaza was surrounded by homes of rancheros and public buildings in [...]

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Convening the 2010 Governor’s Summit on Health, Nutrition and Obesity: Action for Healthy Living, in Los Angeles on February 24, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bill Clinton will bring diverse stakeholders — including members of the California Convergence — to discuss the best policy and practices to combat obesity and improve the health and physical fitness [...]

The City Project Celebrates Black History Month Geronimo with his defense attorneys Robert Garcia, Kathleen Cleaver, Stuart Hanlon and Johnnie Cochran the day of his release, June 10, 1997 geronimo ji Jaga (preferred capitalization), also known as Geronimo Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, was wrongfully convicted for the murder of a woman in Santa [...]

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The City Project celebrates Black History Month The City Project is proud to present the Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park Photo Book The Park commemorates Colonel Allen Allensworth and the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Colonel Allensworth, born a slave, served in the Army and Navy and retired [...]

The City Project celebrates Black History Month Bernard Bruce So-Cal News on YouTube Bruce’s Beach was one of the few beaches in Southern California in the early 1900s that was not off-limits to African Americans. The City of Manhattan Beach condemned Bruce’s Beach and forced out the black community in the 1920’s and 30’s. The [...]

The City Project celebrates Black History Month “Honoring and not forgetting these local community warriors is important. The Civil Rights progress would not have happened without them; Juanita Tate in South LA, Rev. F.D. Nixon in Montgomery; Fred Shuttlesworth and Edward Gardner in Birmingham; Browns Chapel AME Church in Selma.”  Dave Singleton. Juanita Tate, a [...]