The City Project Celebrates Cesar Chavez Day and Women’s History Month UCLA Prof. Judy Baca and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union, at the unveiling of the Cesar Chavez Monument by Judy Baca and SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center) at California State University San Jose, September 4, 2008. Visit the Heritage [...]

The City Project Celebrates Women’s History Month. The Power of Place, a non-profit corporation dedicated to Los Angeles’s multicultural history, created the Biddy Mason Park in downtown Los Angeles.  Team members included Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Donna Graves, Dolores Hayden, Susan King, and Betye Saar. Dolore Hayden published the book The Power of Place: Urban [...]

Judge James Chalfant of the Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled that Culver City may regulate expansion or intensification of new oil wells in the Baldwin Hills oil field on March 26, 2010.  The Court rejected the effort by Texas oil company Plains Exploration and Production Company (PXP) to throw out the City’s moratorium on [...]

The City Project Celebrates Women’s History Month Sara Wan is a staunch supporter of public access to public lands up and down the California Coast, and has served on the California Coastal Commission for many years. Park, trail and beach advocates celebrated the dedication of the Sara Wan Trailhead at Corral Canyon Park in Malibu [...]

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The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month. Lillian Robles remembered. Lillian Robles, an ancestor of the Acjachemen people, is honored through a garden at Bolsa Chica, the annual Ancestor Walk, and the leadership of her family to save the sacred Native American site of Panhe. “Lillian Robles’s legacy will not be forgotten because her family [...]

The City Project Celebrates Women’s History Month. 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 [...]

The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month. Chavez Ravine was a bucolic Latino community through the 1950s, until the City of Los Angeles forcibly evicted the residents with promises of affordable housing. Mrs. Aurora Archega, whose family had resided in Chavez Ravine for 36 years, refused to leave her home, and was carried out by [...]

The City Project seeks a Development Director. The ideal candidate will have a track record in successfully maintaining existing donor relationships, as well as developing new opportunities. The individual should possess excellent relationship-building, public speaking, writing, and interpersonal skills. This individual will have excellent follow-through and be highly results-oriented and self-motivated. The Development Director will [...]

The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month Built in 1902 and bought by the Janes family, the Janes sisters operated Misses Janes Kindergarten in their home. The school attracted the children of early Hollywood celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Cecil B. DeMille, Noah Beery, Jesse Lasky, and the Chandler Family . Learn more [...]