George Lucas museum in Exposition Park, student success stories + South LA hit-and-run

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Variety: (From our own Intersections Staff Reporter Jordyn Holman!) Mayor Eric Garcetti wants George Lucas to bring his museum to South L.A.’s Exposition Park.

KCET: A segment on Chicano artist and South L.A. native Jaime “Germs” Zacarias will air June 18 at 8 p.m.

Noozhawk: A South L.A. student will graduate with the Thomas More Storke Award for Excellence from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Philadelphia: Football player Karim Barton has gone from Jamaica to South L.A. to Philadelphia.

LA Times: Three people die in a South L.A. shooting.

Streetsblog LA: Family and friends of cyclist Oscar Toledo, Jr., killed in a hit-and-run while bicycling on a South L.A. street, ask “what happened to human decency?”