NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed the press Saturday evening about the racist remarks allegedly made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Silver said that he was “not prepared yet to discuss any…
A public relations campaign on Twitter started by the New York Police Department, #myNYPD, migrated west to Los Angeles this week. The campaign was intended to highlight the positive relationship between New Yorkers…
An ambitious redevelopment project in Watts has locals concerned about the environment. The billion dollar project by the L.A. city housing authority would transform the Jordan Downs housing project into an urban village. The…
Downtown business owners asked the City Council Tuesday to step in and “do something” about what they called an assault on years of improvements in the district. Specifically, speakers accused Occupy L.A. and…
A new study highlights the potential negative impacts of AEG’s proposed football stadium for downtown Los Angeles. Human Impact Partners conducted the study, with the support of a coalition that includes the Los…
Twenty groups that offered comments on the draft environmental impact report for Farmers Field have used their prerogative under SB 292 to request mediation with the city and with AEG about it. That…
With the window closing for public comment on the proposed Farmers Field stadium, community activists crowded into a meeting room at the Convention Center, in part with aim to push the window back open.…
Chuck D and Public Enemy occupied their Sunday with a free festival on, for, and about LA’s skid row. Organized by local non-profit Los Angeles Community Action Network, LA CAN, and hosted by Public…
Chuck D and Public Enemy, The Real McCoy, and reggae artist Arise Roots, will put on a free concert for the residents of Los Angeles’ Skid Row district on Sunday, January 15. This event,…
The Los Angeles Human Right to Housing Collective worked to clean up the old Rampart police station on Friday, in honor of International Human Rights Day. The organization hopes to refurbish the rundown…
With over 40,000 homeless living on its streets, Los Angeles is the homeless capital of the country. Over the past decade, cities like Denver, New York and San Francisco have all dramatically reduced…
With over 40,000 homeless living on its streets, Los Angeles is the homeless capital of the country. The largest cluster of those homeless men and women—nearly four thousand—lives on Skid Row, just in…