On Monday, November 27, Sunnyside 5 (SS5) Student Housing held their grand opening at Sunnyside Baptist Church in South Los Angeles. Sunnyside 5 is a new faith-inspired, non-profit project created to serve young people experiencing homelessness, who need supportive transitional housing.
White Hall Arts Academy have just been named as a finalist for the fifth annual Accelerator Awards from the Lewis Prize for Music. WHAA provides free and subsidized conservatory level transformative arts education programs to the South L.A., Inglewood, Watts, and Compton communities and online.
In a display of community spirit, Animal Services Commissioner Alison McBeth-Featherstone, shelter volunteers Danielle Howard and Debra Vigna, and Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s team spearheaded a monumental clean-up operation at the Chesterfield Square Animal Shelter on Sunday, Oct. 1.
City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto announced on September 12 that her office filed a lawsuit against the owners and operator of the New Gage Motel in South Los Angeles.
On Thursday, August 24, Genesis LA, in partnership with JPMorgan Chase and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, gathered with community organizations at the Community Coalition headquarters to announce a new strategy towards increasing housing affordability for Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities across South Los Angeles.
Dr. Jerry P. Abraham, a steadfast advocate for equitable access to public health and healthcare delivery, was installed as the 152nd president of the Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) on August 18, at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena.
Audubon Magnet Middle School and Obama Global Preparatory, both located in South Los Angeles, will begin hosting the first cohorts of The USC McMorrow Neighborhood Academic Initiative program this month as school opens in LAUSD.
On Monday, August 7, the Community Coalition (CoCo) received $2 million from the state of California to provide acquisition, design, and capital funding for the organization’s Center for Community Organizing (CCO).
L.A. Unified School District has officially approved the Athletic Field Modernization Project for Dorsey High School in South Los Angeles.
The design creative talks about her business, her passion and what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
On Wednesday, June 21, Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC) hosted the Los Angeles City Fire Department’s South Bureau for a day of self-care. Battalion staff from the Harbor area, South Los Angeles, Mid City and Century City — 26 stations in all, streamed in and out between emergency calls to become better equipped to serve community residents.
Operation HOPE and Wells Fargo recently announced the grand welcome of a new ‘HOPE Inside’ location in Los Angeles, California. The award-winning HOPE Inside program, which offers access to free financial coaching services, will be located within Wells Fargo’s Florence & Central Branch, 1144 E. Florence Ave., in Los Angeles, CA.
Community members, elected officials and business owners came out on Saturday, May 20, to witness the designation of the Malcolm X Route – a five-mile stretch along Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles.
Lady Angel Price, the daughter of a prison outreach minister, has been attending CCC since the tender age of three. It is where she grew in her faith, met her future husband, and marked many blessed milestones in her life, including her baptism, nuptials, and the baptismal of her children.
L.A. Councilwoman Heather Hutt, the Tabor family and KJLH radio station hosted the first annual Spring Fest LA at the Michelle and Barack Obama Rancho Cienega Park in South Los Angeles on Saturday, April 8.