Young Empowered Scholars (YES) Academy recently hosted its 2nd Annual, Black Student Achievement Plan’s Career Day. This is a collaboration of professionals, students, families and the Crenshaw community to inspire youth towards college and career pathways.
Los Angeles has been a quiet hub for Black art since the 1960s. With artists like Betye Saar, Melvin Edwards, and Noah Purifoy, creating community and exhibitions, Black art has become a staple in West Coast culture. Dr. Virginia Joy Simmons has diligently contributed to this movement and keeps Black stories alive through art collection and philanthropy.
Stocker Street Creative held a community meeting to introduce the development, construction, and design teams of their upcoming creative campus on Feb. 22.
Victory Praise Dancers, led by Robin Deane, shone a light on the Crenshaw District with their performance at the 65th L.A. County Holiday Celebration, televised on Christmas Eve. PiYoDa Flow, the community space where VPD rehearses, serves the West Adams community across generations, with classes that honor African diasporic traditions, wellness, and urban dance.
We can’t end Women’s History Month without acknowledging, wife, mother, and community advocate, Stacey Henley, who, alongside her husband, Big U, founded non-profit organization, “Developing Options, Inc.”
On Sunday, February 25, The Black Family Game Night was hosted in a collaborative partnership with Subject To Change LLC’s Love, Peace & Spades game night and McDonald’s of Southern California.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates the fifth largest banking institution’s investment in the revitalization of the Crenshaw District.
White Hall Arts Academy hosts Rock the Block Festival celebration arts education in the Crenshaw District.
The design creative talks about her business, her passion and what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
Celebrity hairstylist Tiffanie Dixon grew up mingling with young Hollywood while attending Beverly Hills High School, but for lessons in glamour, fashion and style, she drove to the Crenshaw District, where she later enrolled at the historic Universal College of Beauty. Dixon would go on to become Whitney Houston’s longtime hair stylist, graduating in the same 1991 class with Kim Kimble, whose work with stars like Beyoncé led to her own multi-season reality TV show. For four generations, over nearly 100 years, the family-owned Universal College of Beauty has turned out star stylists and beauty gurus by teaching the art of
This weekend, August 13 and 14, the Getty center partnered with Crenshaw Creative for “Crenshaw Remembers” and to celebrate its 25th anniversary at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. Crenshaw Remembers celebrated the “memories of the Crenshaw district.”
Family, friends and admirers joined together on March 2, to celebrate a century of living by Dr. Ena Paschall, a South Los Angeles educator who touched countless lives as the owner-operator of United World International Learning Center.
College Track Crenshaw opened on January 12 and welcomed its first cohort of 60 students from Dorsey, L.A. Promise Charter and Crenshaw High Schools.
Orthodox L.A. hosts “What’s Your Vibe?” The interactive multi-media installation is on display until November 1 at the gallery, which is located in Los Angeles’ Crenshaw district on 54th Street near 4th Avenue. The exhibit is produced and curated by Shalandrea Houchen, known professionally as Shay Renee.
The PFIZER vaccine was available for ages 12-years-old and up.