Leimert Park mural | Photo Credit: Stephanie Monte
A roundup of news stories about South L.A:
South L.A rally takes aim at sex trade (Los Angeles Times)
Poetry tribe in Leimert Park (Zocalo Public Square)
Can the children of Watts change their troubled hood? (LA Weekly)
Inglewood Unified lays off 44 non teaching employees (Daily Breeze)
BAsketball veteran Steve Nash
Clippers owner Donald Sterling was punished by the NBA for racist comments made against blacks, and L.A.’s leading politicians spoke out yesterday in response.
Mayor Eric Garcetti supported NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s decision to ban Sterling from the league for life, among other penalites.
“None of us as Americans and certainly not as Angelenos will stand for this sort of racism that we heard articulated,” said Garcetti. “This city is open for business, it’s ready for greatness, and that is reflected behind me.” [Read more…]
Bernard Parks
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced yesterday that Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned from the league for life, will have to pay a $2.5 million dollar fine and will have no association with the Clippers organization.
Among many other city officials, Councilmember Bernard C. Parks has been vocal about making sure the city condemns Sterling’s racist comments.
Annenberg Radio News spoke with Councilmember Parks about his reaction to the decision and what this all means for the city of Los Angeles:
Maria Elena Durazo announces the 2014 May Day March in Downtown L.A. | Daina Beth Solomon
Cries of “¡Sí se puede!” and “Yes, we can!” filled the air at Cesar Chavez Avenue and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles earlier this month as a crowd of a couple of dozen activists and workers demanded minimum wage increases and the passage of immigration reform.
“We’re uniting the issues of workers and their right to living wages and the right of immigrants to be in this country in a way that they are treated with respect,” said Maria Elena Durazo from the L.A. County Federation of Labor.
She also announced the new route for the annual Workers’ Day march on May 1. It will begin at Cesar Chavez and Broadway, concluding at the Metropolitan Detention Center about one half-mile away. [Read more…]
El coronel necesitó setenta y cinco años — los setenta y cinco años de su vida, minuto a minuto –para llegar a ese instante. Se sintió puro, explicito, invencible, en el momento de responder.
“Mierda.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 2009 | Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
I laughed out loud to myself as I finished reading “El coronel no tiene quien le escriba.”
“Shit.”
This is the answer that took the colonel seventy-five years of his life to provide in response to his wife as she pestered him about what they were going to eat.
“No One Writes to the Colonel” is the second novel I read by Gabriel García Márquez. It is one of my favorite books written by him, with one of the best endings that I have ever read. It is sad that Latin America has lost one of its most prized writers. But to me, he lives on in his stories and in the love of people who want change.
I discovered Márquez — also called El Gabo, a diminutive of affection among his friends and fans — in my first English class in community college two years ago when I read the “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World.” In this short story Márquez transforms the life of an isolated village when its residents become enamored of a dead man who washes up on their shore. Gabo gives life to a drowned man with his magical realism in stunning, straightforward prose. Instantly, I added him to my list of must-read authors, venturing to learn still more about El Gabo and his art. [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: Gabriel García Márquez died April 17 leaving behind dozens of writings and a legacy that touches young writers around the world. Miguel Molina of Reporter Corps South L.A. is one of them. To pay homage to “El Gabo,” Molina penned the poem below (in Spanish and English) and a first-person piece titled, “He wrote for us all: A South LA tribute to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.”
One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s famed novels, “Love in the Time of Cholera” | Ross Angus
The Watts Towers. | Kerstin Zilm
A roundup of news stories about South L.A:
Racial remarks attributed to Donald Sterling face widespread rebuke (Los Angeles Times)
Vigil held in South LA for fatally shot barber (KTLA)
Black LAPD captain files suit against city (LA Sentinel)
When People St. Plaza Projects are more than just Plaza Projects (Streetsblog Los Angeles)
A gate barricades the AllenCo oil drill site from the street. | Emmanuel Martinez
The Environmental Protection Agency announced an agreement with the Allenco Energy Inc. Friday that will cost the South L.A. oil production facility $700,000 for site improvements after it was found to be in violation of industry standards and receiving hundreds of residential complaints.
This deal is a result of an EPA investigation that uncovered several health and safety violations.
“When a company is operating in extremely close proximity to a neighboring community, it is essential that steps are taken to ensure the safety of the residents,” said Jared Blumenfeld, the EPA’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest division, in a statement. “Today’s order requires Allenco make the investments necessary to comply with the federal Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.”
Also see: City Council votes to halt oil drilling in South LA and throughout city, West Adams neighbors seek to oust oil production & Allenco addresses South LA oil field complaints [Read more…]
What images come to mind when you think of South L.A.? That’s the question Strategic Actions for a Just Economy took on for its “SAJE Loteria South LA Style” project – a creation of 55 hand-drawn images assembled as a game set to sell as a fundraiser for the South L.A.-based organization.
Some of the artworks are on display at Nature’s Brew Café in West Adams through the end of May. SAJE is hosting a reception to celebrate the project on Sunday from 7 to 10 p.m.
We spoke with Teresa Eilers from SAJE to learn about the inspiration behind the project. [Read more…]
A roundup of news stories about South L.A:
South LA demand’s LAUSD provide LCFF dollars for high need schools (Eastern Group Publications)
South LA Head Start agency getting pushed out (Los Angeles Wave Newspaper)
Sheriff’s charged with planting evidence at South LA pot shop (KTLA)
MTV announces the Inglewood Forum as new venue for upcoming VMA’s (My Sask)
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