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Never Again for Anyone
A Permanent Ceasefire on people, place, and all else which makes home
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J.T. the L.A. Storyteller
Honoring Our Ancestors from Venice to Oaxaca
A Oaxacalifornian shares what Dia de Muertos means to her
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Areli Morales Lopez
2
October 2023
Fruit of the Family Tree: Nana Rolls
How the Marshall-Abright delight continues kneading generations together.
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Karen "Kiwi" Burch
4
Blooming Branches: Oppression and Solidarity in the 1920s and 1930s
Redlining the American Dream in Dayton Heights
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Karen "Kiwi" Burch
5
Making Our Neighborhood: The Magazine, is Back!
100 new copies are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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J.T. the L.A. Storyteller
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Samanta Helou Hernandez
September 2023
Growing Roots: Fighting for a Multiracial Democracy in Reconstruction Era Mississippi
The Making of Two Activists, Josephine and George Albright
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Karen "Kiwi" Burch
Sowing Seeds: How My Family Helped Build East Hollywood Over A Century Ago
“My family came to Los Angeles in 1891.” I let the sentence soak in and watch the quizzical expression flash across their face before they respond with…
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Karen "Kiwi" Burch
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August 2023
The 'Making A Neighborhood' Exhibit Opens in Wyoming
A new exhibit in collaboration with the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation tells the story of Japanese and Black solidarity in the J-Flats neighborhood…
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Samanta Helou Hernandez
1
When Does "Housing" Become a Home?
On the neighborhood's new Avenida Housing Project
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Ali Rachel Pearl
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J.T. the L.A. Storyteller
July 2023
How to Write About Place
a public syllabus
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Ali Rachel Pearl
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La Tiendita de Don Andrés
A family business in East Hollywood for decades now struggles to survive
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J.T. the L.A. Storyteller
June 2023
VIRGILVILLAGE, THE ALBUM
Hip hop music straight outta Virgil Village
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J.T. the L.A. Storyteller
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