From Trust South LA - Ride to the Watts Towers this weekend as Ciclavia and TRUST South LA create a crowdsourced map of the city and do a route exploration for the next citywide Ciclavia.

 

Starting at 10am…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A Tribute in Song celebrates Dr. King through a multimedia presentation along with words and songs performed by Lura Daniels-Ball, an alumna of USC’s world-renowned Thornton School of Music.

Essentially, MLK:  A Tribute in Song takes the audience on a musical journey highlighting the milestones of Dr. King’s legendary life that ended too soon almost 44 years ago on April 4, 1968. 

The 31st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,…

The Village at USC, a mixed use plaza of shops, grocery stores, restaurants and student housing at Hoover and Jefferson, is having an open house. The city would like residents to know more about the project and to sharr their desires and concerns.

Saturday, January 7th

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

EXPO Center, 3890 Bill Robertson Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90037

Parking is available in…

20th Annual Empowerment Congress Summit 

Saturday, January 14, 2012

                                 Registration OPENS: 8:00 am - 9:00 am

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Every 10 years the people of Los Angeles have an opportunity to shape the 15 City Council District Boundaries. 

If you care about parks, police, fire, transportation, jobs, historic preservation, city services, here's your chance to let the Redistricting Commissionknow what's important.

Please share - RT, FB, Digg.

Council District 8 -

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 6-8:30 p.m.

EXPO…

Please be advised of the following schedule for the Week of Jan 8 regarding Metro Expo Line train movement:



SUNDAY, JANUARY 8 through SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012



11:00 AM to 1:00 AM



Train movement between Washington Blvd. (at Flower St.) and La Cienega Blvd. (at Jefferson Blvd.)

 



REMEMBER: Expect train movement at ANYTIME. Train movement is dynamic and subject to change.



Please ALWAYS follow these important Safety Tips:

§         Be alert…

KABC takes note of the youth in South L.A. who "soar to new heights to help spark community awareness about a fitness…

With the second week of archiving behind us, we find the real jewels of Manual Arts High School—the student body willingness to work hard to preserve the reach history bestowed on to them. With the help of senior high school student Alexis, the archiving portion of the Manual Arts High School collection is running smoothly and on schedule to be finished by the end of June.  

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*SPRING CLEANING IN THE 8TH



Via Councilman Parks' newsletter: "Last Saturday, Councilmember Parks and 8th District staff joined 135 volunteers - some as young as 8 years old - to clean up areas throughout the Great 8th! Our Spring Cleaning was a huge success! Special thanks goes to Morman Helping Hands, Public Works, Community Volunteers, Neighborhood…

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The Center South LA, Communisty Services Unlimited had an amazing event for Earth Day at Normandie Avenue Elementary as hundreds made Bug Catchers, I Love Earth Day Hearts, Earth Day T-shirts, and teaching an awesome Dance Class!



*All photos by the amazing Patty Courtland

Over a hundred artists participated in…

Did you know President Obama has declared May, National Foster Care Month. As a nation we need to be aware of our Foster Youth and the incredibly unstable system they are in. Living Advantage is continuing to work hard, creating partnerships that allow us to create positive solutions and the power to implement them. Check out our NEW Website…

The Electric Lawn Mower Exchange Program allows residents to turn in their working gas-powered lawn mower and purchase a new cordless rechargeable electric mower at a discounted price. Using a typical gas mower for one year…

The month of April is a very exciting month at Manual Arts High School. The long awaited revitalization of the one-hundred year old newspaper and yearbook collection has started. 

The Manual Arts High School newspaper collection goes back as far as 1913. This is why a digitization and archival project was extremely needed. The archiving project will keep the collection alive and manageable for the next decades in order to have current students, alumni, staff, and faculty…

On March 2nd the journalism class at Manual Arts High School took a day off work to go to USC School for Communication and Journalism to see and learn more about USC's journalism program. Their arrival to USC was greeted by USC graduate students who offered them a tour of the department's installations. 

The students then followed to hear a talk by Felix Gutierrez, professor at the Department for Communication and Journalism, who gave a lecture about his own newspaper…

The nationwide race to claim one of the rare icons of space exploration is coming Los Angeles - more specifically to South LA.

The California Science Center in Exposition Park will be the…

USC Transportation has  been advised by Expo that train testing activities are schedules to start this week and continue in the area for the next several months. Testing will take place intermittently along the light rail alignment.

Safety Tips from Metro:



·        Please obey all warning signs and traffic signals when crossing the tracks.

·        Always look both ways before crossing any street

·        Never walk on the railroad tracks

·        Watch for trains…