Creating community leaders in South LA is part of the mission of the Public Allies program run by CDTech. Find out how it's inspiring change.
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Pastor Calvin Reed, Jr. is a resident of South LA who supports the President. Read a Neon Tommy report that follows 2012 campaign money in L.A.
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Community activist Martha Sánchez writes how economic decline, substandard housing and environmental damage have stigmatized the South LA community, whose grass roots efforts to combat the area's problems should be better recognized.
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South LA activists take their protest to the Occidental Petroleum annual shareholder meeting.
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Blair H. Taylor criticizes an MTA decision that will ship 500 jobs oversees that would've stayed in South LA
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April is sexual assault awareness month. It also marks the global observance of Denim Day for sexual assault survivors.
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The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy released its new Drug Control Strategy for 2012. It spends about as much on incarceration as treatment. Some wonder whether that strategy works or whether a new approach is needed.
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Although Mayor Villaraigosa sees many positive changes, some feel that South LA has yet to experience the good times he spoke of.
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Councilman Bernard Parks continues his fight against the proposed redistricting map approved by the City Council on March 16. Read how he criticizes State Sen. Curren and how he's asking community members to appeal to Mayor Villaraigosa.
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Hilda Solis visited the South LA clinic to talk about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the second anniversary of Obama's health care reform. /images/uploads/Solis_on_panel.jpg
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