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20something: Documenting Young Lives Helps Filmmaker Resolve Her Violent Past
Comments (0) | 20something, California, filmmaker, incarcerated, KQED, prison, South Los Angeles, The California Report, youth
(Jake de Grazia/USC)
AUDIO: A young filmmaker seeks to change minds and lives with her work.
Read more...LA South Bureau Continues to Fight Violence, Homicides Down City-Wide
Comments (0) | Andre Birotte, Andre Birotte Jr, compton high school, deputy chief gannon, deputy chief patrick gannon, gang talk, la pd, la police, LA riots, lapd, law enforcement, lionel whiteside, Los Angeles, los angeles police, patrick gannon, PCNM, project cry no more, sister lita herron, south bureau, South Central, South LA, South Los Angeles, US Attorney Birotte, vicky d. lindsey, vicky lindsey
LAPD's South Bureau divisions (map by OpenStreetMap).
Each year, South LA accounts for nearly 40 percent of murders in the city.
Read more...STD Tests Online Fuel Demand For Better Testing Kits
Comments (2) | abbot, buy online, cdc, charlotte gaydos, chlamydia, gen-probe, gonorrhea, harlan rotblatt, Health, home access health, johns hopkins university, los angeles county health services, public health, sex, sexually transmitted diseases, South Los Angeles, STD testing, std tests, steven smith, tracey powell
If it were as easy as Netflix, would you be more likely to get tested?
Read more...South L.A. Residents Feel The Effects Of CRA/LA's Demise
Comments (0) | community redevelopment agencies, CRA/LA, housing, Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, TRUST LA, USC
Communities rocked by loss of CRAs.
Read more...Michelle Obama Christens Inglewood Fresh Market
Comments (2) | california freshworks fund, food desert, Healthy Food, hffi, Inglewood, let's move campaign, Los Angeles, Michelle Obama, national health food financing initiative, northgate market, oscar gonzalez, South Los Angeles
(Photo by Benjamin Gottlieb)
SLIDESHOW: Fanfare at Wednesday's opening.
Read more...Occupy L.A. Targets Home Auctions, Banks In Anti-Foreclosure March
Comments (4) | arturo blas, auction.com, bank of new york mellon, carlos marroquin, cheryl aichele, City Hall, domenic pepe, faith parker, foreclosure, foreclosure moratorium, friday 13th, friday the 13th, home foreclosure, l.a. city hall, la city hall, Los Angeles, los angeles city hall, mellon bank, occupy l.a., Occupy LA, Occupy LA march, occupy los angeles, Occupy Wall Street, ows, Pershing Square, sheraton, South L.A., South LA, South Los Angeles, west jefferson test only center
Protesters march the streets of downtown L.A. to rally against auction companies and banks profiting from foreclose
The group chose to hold the march on a day associated with bad luck.
Read more...Tough Jobs Climate Hits Los Angeles’ Inner City Neighborhoods Hardest
Comments (1) | David Eder, east los angeles, Faces of L.A.’s Jobless: A Neon Tommy Special Report, Lisa Salazar, Los Angeles and Region, Los Angeles Community Development Department, Robert Gutierrez, South Los Angeles, stimulus funds, unemployment, Wal-Mart, Work Investment Act, Work Investment Board, Youth Employment Services, Youth Opportunities Movement, youth unemployment
The unemployment rate in pockets of East and South Los Angeles is as high as 50 percent for teens.
Read more...South L.A. Fast Food Ban Gets Mixed Reactions
Comments (0) | diabetes, Fast Food Ban, Food, Healthy Food, Jan Perry, los angeles city council, Obesity, South Los Angeles, Unhealthy Food
VIDEO: Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in Los Angeles County.
Read more...Digital Activism In South L.A.: Coalition Taps Social Media For Answers
Comments (0) | Community Coalition of South LA (CoCo), community group, digital activism, digital natives, Facebook, followers, likes, social media, South Los Angeles, Technology, Twitter, volunteers
How did a small group end up annoying the White House?
Read more...A Farm Grows In Compton
Comments (0) | african-americans, cockfighting, compton, compton city council, corrine paige, Los Angeles and Region, mexican-americans, richland farms, South Los Angeles, taveon harlston
As the city pushes forward with “Birthing a New Compton,” many Richland Farms residents hope to simply recapture the old days.
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