NBC: Fans of Mexico’s soccer team gather, watch, and commiserate in Huntington Park after Sunday’s World Cup loss.
LA Times: New York’s “Ghetto Film School” brings its unique approach to teaching filmmaking to South L.A.
KTLA: A shooting in Inglewood lead to one death and a wounded police officer.
CurbedLA: The upcoming Crenshaw line project has another stop established, this one with bells and whistles.
DailyNews: Chipotle opens the doors of its first branch in Compton.
Bradenton Herald: A man on death row for murdering 10 women gets another death sentence for further murders.
LAist: The family of Watts-born Ricky “The Pirate” Taylor, a well-known character, opens his upcoming Saturday funeral to those who would like to remember him.
LA Times: Police identified two women shot in their car Tuesday night, and ask the community for information.
DailyBreeze: Construction of the Crenshaw light rail line will now entail shutting down Century Blvd for two days to demolish a bridge.
Vocativ: An exhibit at the Santa Monica Museum of art will attempt to recreate the smells of Los Angeles. Spoiler alert! The artist’s South L.A. smell is “metallic heat and hydraulic fluid.”
Modesto Bee: The upcoming distribution of driver’s licenses to immigrants who arrived in the country illegally stirs debate on issuance rules.
CBS: A teenager with autism goes missing from his home in South L.A.
LA Times: Foster parents and group home staff can now undergo training to aid them in identifying and helping children who might be victims of sex trafficking.
Some people say “South Central.” Others prefer “South L.A.” And still others use both names to describe the neighborhoods south of the 10 Freeway that run alongside the 110 – historically one of the most poor and violent areas of Los Angeles. Ten years after city officials changed the name “South Central” to “South Los Angeles” in hopes of alleviating the neighborhood’s negative stigma, Intersections is gauging current opinion. We are asking residents, politicians, community leaders and others: What do the names mean to you? And how has South L.A. changed over the past decade?
History professor Josh Sides saw the name change as a “superficial moment in history,” he told Intersections. Still, he believes names can carry great weight. Sides, who teaches at Cal State Northridge, is the author of “L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present” and the editor of the anthology, “Post-Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles.” Read on for our interview.
Visit our “South LA vs. South Central” page for other perspectives. Add your own in the comments section, or email us at [email protected] [Read more…]
Protesters gather outside the LA County Jail ahead of the June sheriff election. | Daina Beth Solomon
Gregory Bimin grew up in South L.A. battling both schizophrenia and alcohol addiction. He also battled to find services in his neighborhood. Hear Bimin’s story in an audio piece from Annenberg Radio News:
Now that the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is considering a major jail expansion that would create additional facilities for mentally-ill inmates, some are saying that resources should be directed toward diversion programs instead, helping to keep mentally ill offenders out of jail in the first place. [Read more…]
NBC: Nine months after a fatal accident at the 42nd Place and Normandie Avenue intersection, Councilman Curren Price joined community members in celebrating the installation of a traffic light.
ABC: A death row inmate convicted of the murders of 10 women in the South L.A. area was convicted of four more murders.
FOX: Anchor Phil Shuman explores the use of the Megan’s Law website and the prevalence of sexual offenders.
LA Times: A Los Angeles man died a week after being severely beaten on a South LA Metro platform by two women.
KCET: A team of UCLA researchers tracked the over 8 million pounds of toxic spew in LA county; check out the map for yourself here.
LA Times: Police officials are investigating a veteran detective’s alleged comments about shooting black men during a training lecture.
InsightNews: South LA native Ice Cube talks to InsightNews about his upcoming movie “22 Jump Street” and his work with NWA.
LA Times: GOP gubernatorial hopeful Neel Kashkari brings his message to Living Gospel Church to talk about unemployment, education, and poverty.
NBC: Crenshaw businesses are feeling the squeeze as construction of the LAX light rail extension will continue for another six weeks.
A wall of the library’s exterior features an Olmec statue. | Stephanie Case
It’s been fifty years since Emil Freed—son of anarchists, a Communist Party member, and staunch activist—founded the Southern California Library to save materials at risk of being destroyed amid fear of McCarthyism. A lot has changed in South L.A. since then: the 1992 riots rocked the city, workers’ unions grew stronger, and race, class and sexuality have been at the forefront of political battles. And today, more people than ever are using the social justice library.
“Maybe less than 200 people would come through the door in a year” in 2002, said communications director Michele Welsing. “Now, we’ve seen those numbers go up to as much as 10,000. And for researchers, we’re getting as many people now in one month as we would get in an entire year.”
Take an audio tour of the library with reporter Stephanie Case:
Freed’s small collection of leftist papers has blossomed into more than 400 archives, including vinyl records, film reels and shelves upon shelves of political pamphlets. [Read more…]
Rocio washes dishes as part of her job. | Andrea Martinez
California passed a Domestic Workers Rights Bill back in January that extends overtime hours for domestic workers and assures minimum wage protections. However, some workers still experience injustice such as wage theft in such an unregulated industry. We spent a day with Rocio, who cares for kids at a house in Santa Monica, to learn about the daily life of a domestic worker.
Click play to hear from Rocio in a story for Annenberg Radio News: [Read more…]
A piece of the Crenshaw Mural | Stephanie Monte
LA Times: Columnist Sandy Banks feels safe in Northridge. But Jasmyne Cannick, an Intersections op-ed contributor who lives in Westmont just below South L.A. in L.A. County, often feels insecure.
Streetsblog: South L.A. responds to the growing number of hit-and-runs killing cyclists.
NBC: Assemblyman Mike Gatto is proposed a bill that would help law enforcement find the perpetrators of hit-and-runs.
KCET: Many soccer fans are gathering in bars and restaurants to watch the World Cup — but what about in the streets? (Stay tuned for a South L.A. location to be announced soon.)
LA School Report: Progress on Community Coalition’s efforts to improve South L.A. schools.
Daily Mail: A man admitted to killing his brother at a family gathering in South L.A.
Daily News: A fire damaged a building in the 9200 block of South Central Avenue late Monday night.
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