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July 12, 2009 from 3pm to 5pm – Lucy Florence
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Lyricist 1 Reply
Lyricist seeks singer and musicians for collaboration.
Started by glosara. Last reply by enhager 2 minutes ago.
Pools Open for Summer in Los Angeles. Plus free swm lessons.
Marking the official start of summer, city and county pools will open Saturday just as temperatures in the San Fernando Valley are expected to reach more than 80 degrees, reports Susan Abram. Los ...
Tagged: expo, exercise, swim, pool
Started by enhager Jun 19.
Black Panther photographer, Muhammad Ali's daughter, a hip hop doc, vegan soul food author and creator of the Kwanzaa postage stamp: All on menu at Saturday's Leimert Park Village Book Fair 1 Reply
The Leimert Park Village Book Fair features more than 150 authors, writers, storytellers and poets, in addition to workshops, forums, and panel discussions. A poets stage, Farmers Market, cooking ...
Tagged: kwanzaa, author, literature, ali, panther
Started by enhager. Last reply by ColoredPeople.net Jun 7.
At Tavis Smiley's Crib to Screen "Stand." Smiley says Obama needs to be held accountable to become a great president 4 Replies
There I was watching snippets from some of the great speeches given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seeing where he spoke and where he was assassinated. All history lessons I’ve experienced before. ...
Tagged: cornel, hayes, more, west, movie
Started by enhager. Last reply by enhager Jun 4.
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New York Times - South Los Angeles says yes to no more fast food in 2008
KCRW: Warren Olney's Which Way, LA - County supervisor race goes uncovered by the media
LAist - Neighborhood Project in 2007
Curbed LA - West Adams on the down low in 2007
LA Observed - WeAd is the black WeHo in 2007
NPR: Leimert Park's Struggle with Identity in 2006
Washington Post - Tour of Leimert Park in 2006
Los Angeles Times - Tour of Leimert Park in 2005
LA Observed - Winds knock down the trees in 2006
LA City Beat - Tour of Leimert Park in 2005
NY Times - Soul Central from 1993
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A Critique of Consumer Society -- in Black and White
Elmer Moore turned 90 this spring, the same day that U.S. President Barack Obama issued his call for the economic stimulus plan that is pumping $700 billion into the ailing U.S. economy.
Moore was a 10-year-old kid in Oklahoma when the stock market crashed and signaled the start of the G… Continue
Posted by walter on July 6, 2009 at 6:14pm
A Tribute to Huey Long (1904 - 2009) The last original Ink Spots - Lived to be 105
Photo courtesy of inkspotsmuseum.com
We are honored to have Anita Long as a member of our ColoredPeople network. She is Huey Long's Daughter and the Ink Spot's Museum's curator. Anita invites you to attend a Tribute to her fat… Continue
Posted by ColoredPeople.net on July 3, 2009 at 8:30pm
Meeting to decide what's 'historic' in Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw and West Adams
Hills – Leimert Community Plan Areas have been selected to participate in the first year
of the citywide survey.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Constituent Service Center
8475 S. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90044
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Regional meeting for SurveyLA, the first-ever citywide survey of Los Angeles’ historic
resources. and we hope you will participate.
SurveyLA, partially funded by a matching grant from the Getty Foundat… Continue
Posted by enhager on June 17, 2009 at 3:16pm
This is the Life - review of the film on the hip hop scene in South central L.A.
Posted by Marguerite de Bourgoing on June 10, 2009 at 12:13am
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