The City Project’s Robert Garcia writes: Thurgood Marshall dedicated his life to achieve equal justice for all. He pioneered public interest, civil rights, and constitutional litigation and advocacy. He founded the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (where I served as Western Regional Counsel), which served as a model for all other legal defense [...]

This is the original conceptual plan presented by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority at the first groundbreaking for the Ascot Hills Park in 2005. Almost five years later, the city of Los Angeles is finally creating the park. The City Project is tracking how long in a child’s life [...]

The Los Angeles Times reports: It wasn’t real for Rudy Torres until the construction trucks and orange-vested surveyors started to roll past the gate at Ascot Hills near El Sereno this week. The 140 acres of rolling grassland near where the 56-year-old retiree grew up will finally, after decades of setbacks, become a public park. [...]

The Convergence Partnership Healthy People Healthy Places Webinar Series A PATH FROM HOPE TO CHANGE: IMPLEMENTING EQUITY-FOCUSED PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES JUNE 29, 11:00-12:00pm PDT (1-2 pm CDT, 2-3 pm EDT) Join us for a webinar on Implementing Equity-Focused Principles and Strategies. This webinar is the third in a five-part series titled “Healthy People, Healthy Places,” [...]

[F]or sheer disruption to human lives, several [experts] could think of no environmental problem in American history quite equaling the calamity known as the Dust Bowl. “The Dust Bowl is arguably one of the worst ecological blunders in world history,” said Ted Steinberg, a historian at Case Western Reserve University. Across the High Plains, stretching [...]

The City Project and our allies have been working to create a park at Ascot Hills in East Los Angeles for many years. The city had the first ground breaking for Ascot Hills Park in November 2005. The park was supposed to be finished by 2007 under state park bond funds. Nothing happened. The City [...]

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On December 14, 1963, a crack formed in the Baldwin Hills Dam causing the dam to be breached and a massive flood to ensue. The 20-acre basin behind the dam had been filled to a depth of 70 feet and held approximately 250 million gallons of water. The flood inundated an area of one square [...]

Oil spills . . . seem to be judged more by their effect on people than on the environment. Consider the Lakeview Gusher which was almost certainly a worse oil spill, by volume, than the [BP oil rig disaster] in the [Gulf of Mexico]. In the southern end of California’s San Joaquin Valley, an oil [...]

Chief Arvol Looking Horse offers a prayer for the sacred life of all things in the wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster below. Rhonda Robles of the Acjachemen Nation invites family and friends to celebrate the National Day of Prayer for the Protection of Sacred Sites and the Summer Solstice at the Sacred [...]