Free community concert (5 pm)
(New Creation Faith Center, 8862 S. Western Avenue, Los Angeles 90047 (near corner of Western and 89th Street))
The family of Crystal Rene Crawford, who was killed in a drive-by shooting last year, will host a free community concert titled ``Stop the Violence, Start the Healing," in honor of those killed by street/gang violence.
New Creation Christian Faith Center, 8862 S.
Crystal Rene Crawford was shot in Inglewood on May 30, 2009. She lived in Los Angeles and was a preschool teacher at St. John's Lutheran in El Segundo.
The Ballad of Emmett Till (2:00 pm)
(Fountain Theatre, 5060 Fountain Avenue, Los Angeles)
"The Ballad of Emmett Till" will run at the Fountain Theatre through April 3. The play, by award-winning playwright, producer and conceptual theater artist Ifa Bayeza, is an integration of past, present, fact and legend turns the story of the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till into a work of music and poetic language. The show will run Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 to $28.
More info: (323) 663-1525
Civil Rights walk against racial profiling (11:30 am)
(Corner of 190th and Yukon, Torrance (½ mile West of Crenshaw Blvd. and 1 mile South of Artesia Blvd.))
A coalition of civil rights leaders will stage a “Civil Right Leaders Walk Against Racial Profiling” in Torrance to the site where a prominent Los Angeles African-American minister and Torrance resident, Robert Taylor was the subject of an unwarranted police stop, search and harassment. Civil rights leaders say the stop may be part of a pattern by Torrance police of systematic stops and searches of African-Americans in the city.
At a news conference before the walk, civil rights leaders will call for a Justice Department and FBI probe of Torrance police practices. They will also announce a six month monitor of Torrance police stops and searches of African-American and Hispanic motorists in the city.
“The hostile atmosphere in Torrance toward African-Americans motorists and residents must end,” says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, President, Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, “A Justice Dept. probe and civil rights monitoring is major step toward ending the hostile climate in Torrance.”