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A roundup of news from South L.A…
Morris Day to perform at Brotherhood’s 45th anniversary Gala (LA Sentinel)
Protest against police brutality stops traffic at Crenshaw and Stocker (CBS)
Justin Timberlake set to perform at the Forum once it re-opens (Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Wave honors most influential African Americans (LA Wave)
1.1 million people in the US are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.
African-Americans comprise about half of all HIV-positive people in the United States. The NAACP is promoting education that might help halt the trend. It held a forum on Thursday in Manhattan Beach on HIV, health equity, and the black church.
The event, part of NAACP’s California Hawaii State Conference, drew an array of people, including Black pastors from South L.A. “We’ve been in this losing streak for a long time,” one said.
A long-time health care worker from Inglewood also attended. “Everyone thought this was a gay, white disease,” she said. “And I said no, that’s not true.”
Hear more voices from the event in a story from Annenberg Radio News:
HIV Statistics among Black women
At the corner of Crenshaw and Slauson on Tuesday, protesters wearing hoodies in commemoration of Trayvon Martin drew honks from passing cars as they waved signs and chanted. Their message? That police brutality needs to end.
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has organized this “National Day of Protest” every Oct. 22 for the past 18 years. (It takes its name from the date of the first protest in 1996.)
The coalition aims to “give ground to the families, people who have lost loved ones by the hands of police,” said one protester.
Listen to an audio story from Annenberg Radio News to learn more:
Compton Mayor Aja Brown. Photo by Ralf Cheung, Daily Trojan.
Aja Brown is a hot commodity in the media these days. Fresh from appearing on the pages of The Guardian in a profile article, the new, young mayor of Compton met recently with students in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Brown, an alumna of the school, is the first woman mayor of Compton. She has high hopes for the troubled city.
Listen to Mayor Brown’s comments to the class at USC in a story from Annenberg Radio News:
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘good kid, m.A.A.d, city” was the highest grossing solo male album debut of 2012.
A roundup of news from South L.A…
Beverly Hills Tennis Club adopts a hard-up South LA squad (LA Times)
Brush fire burns a quarter acre in Baldwin Hills (Culver City Patch)
‘Dream Big’ fundraiser gala to support at risk South LA youth (Santa Monica Mirror)
‘good Kid, m.A.A.d City’: A South Los Angeles classic (Complex)
Participants in Reporter Corps, a USC Annenberg program to train young adults from South LA to report on their own communities, created audiovisual introductions to their neighborhoods this summer. Skylar E Myers project focuses on history, poverty, and love.
Skylar Endsley Myers, 23, Saint Bernard Catholic High School graduate, University of California San Diego graduate
My family has lived in South Los Angeles for nearly three generations. My grandparents remember the treachery of the Watts Riots of 1965 just as vividly as they can recall their first time witnessing the genre-bending genius of George Clinton & the Funkadelics at a house party in Compton. And let me tell you their words are unlike anything you’d read in a history book. In the midst of gang wars, riots, and disparity my grandparents would tell me these stories and they’ve worked to instill me with pride, hope, and dignity throughout my life. I always assumed they told me these stories as a reminder that we’ve been here before and we’ve made it through and we have the power to get through it again. For this reason I feel storytelling is important, especially for the improvement of the community. Stories are records of what has happened in the past to form both who you are and how you’ll behave in the future. Through Reporters Corps South LA, I hope to bring light and voice to the overshadowed stories of the streets, the people, and the schools in hopes of instilling all South Central Angelinos with the same pride, hope, dignity and attachment I feel for this city.
To read about Skylar’s experiences growing up in South Central click here.
The Taste of Soul street festival celebrates all things “soulful” and has been a South L.A. tradition for 8 years.
A roundup of news from South L.A…
L.A. goes nine days without a homicide (LAist)
The “not-so-Magic School Bus” makes a stop in South L.A. (California Forward)
Forgotten LA: Go exploring with “Urban Hikes” in Leimert Park, the Arts District, Koreatown, and Burbank (NBC)
Taste of Soul crowd exceeds 300,000 (LA Sentinel)
Carson pastor in prison for $11 million Medicare scandal (Imperial Valley News)
URBAN TxT is working to grow impact and support to inspire more young men of color to become technology leaders through $100K crowdfunding campaign
URBAN Teens eXploring Technology (URBAN TxT) is based in South Los Angeles and recruits young men of color between the 7th and 11th grade for its year-round coding academies. The organization officially launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $100,000 as a way to inspire more teens to become tech leaders through coding while developing positive communities.
One of the main philosophies at URBAN Teens eXploring Technology, the 3-year old organization based in South Los Angeles, is that “nothing is hard, just a lot of work.” The teens and staff live this mentality, making URBAN TxT’s new crowdfunding campaign on Razoo that much more exciting as the organization works to raise $100,000 between now and November 13th. [Read more…]
South Los Angeles residents have been complaining about headaches, dizziness, nose bleeds and other ailments which they are convinced are related to a nearby oil field. On Wednesday night, the South Coast Air Quality Management District held a town hall at St. Mary’s College to talk to residents. AQMD has maintained that samples taken from the oil field on Figueroa and 23rd Street, owned by Allenco Energy Company, do not show high levels of toxicity.
Reporter Emmanuel Martinez talked with Annenberg Radio News host Ryan Bouziane about the meeting and the residents’ complaints:
he Martin Luther King Monument, in front of the Compton City Hall and the Superior Court building, is the logo for the city and featured on signage. | Courtesy of WikiCommons
A roundup of news from South L.A…
Dom Kennedy ‘Get Home Safely’ Album Review (Mimo)
Compton’s new Mayor plans to make it a ‘New Brooklyn’ (Curbed LA)
Representative Karen Bass calls for immediate investigation into urban oil drilling site. (LA Wave)
Kindergarten readiness workshop preps Broadway-Manchester children for school (LA Sentinel)
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