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Los Angeles may rename 'South Central' - Salon.com South Central Los Angeles is on the verge of fading into history. South Central never was a historical name but rather a label applied to a steadily broadening region of fl communities, said David Crippens, interim executive director of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. South Central's reputation for violence grew from the 1965 and 1992 riots, and it was bolstered by drug dealing and periodic outbreaks of gang violence. dir.salon.com /story/mwt/wire/2003/04/08/south_central/index.html   (661 words)

South Central Los Angeles - Definition, explanation South Central Los Angeles (often called simply South Central) is a large geographic and cultural area lying to the south and southwest of downtown Los Angeles, California. Until the rise of the Wilshire Boulevard corridor refocused Los Angeles' development to the west of downtown in the 1920s, West Adams was one of the most desirable areas of the city. By the time of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which began in South Central and spread throughout the city, "South Central" had become a byword for urban decay, its bad reputation spread by movies such as South Central, Friday, and South Central native John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood. www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/so/south_central_los_angeles.php   (1032 words)

Alcohol Fuels Violence Residents of South Central Los Angeles have long argued that the concentration of alcohol outlets in their neighborhood serves as a magnet for crime that seriously disrupts the community. South Central Los Angeles is home to 10 percent - 728 - of Los Angeles County's 7,200 stores selling alcohol, even though South Central houses only 7 percent of L.A.'s population and 3 percent of its area. These groups should be inspired by the success story of residents in South Central Los Angeles who played a major part in the passage of a city ordinance restricting the number and location of new alcohol outlets opened in their area. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gallery/photostories/violence/violence14.DTL   (829 words)

BBC NEWS | Americas | LA trouble spot 'wiped' from map South Central Los Angeles has been removed from the map of LA, in an effort to rid the area of its international image of gang violence and poverty. But by simply taking the Central out of South Central, the local authority is hoping decades of negative images will be confined to the history books. Helen Johnson, a resident of the newly defined South Los Angeles, said she hoped the change would encourage a new pride in the area. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2969645.stm   (600 words)

Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles v. L.A. Unified School Dist. Accompanying appellants' petition were the declarations of Margaret Diop, an associate planner for the City of Los Angeles from 1989 to 1991, and Paul Lee, an attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. The SEIR adequately informed the agency and the public of the housing conditions in the greater South Central area with sufficient detail to "enable those who did not participate in its preparation to understand and to consider meaningfully the issues raised by the proposed project." (Kings County Farm Bureau v. The SEIR explains that the Southeast Los Angeles District Plan, part of the City of Los Angeles General Plan, commits the City to redirect its energies to improve the declining Southeast Los Angeles District by focusing on (1) poverty and unemployment, (2) serious deficiencies in educational achievement and (3) lack of adequate community safety. www.ceres.ca.gov /ceqa/cases/1994/s_central.html   (5562 words)

Ten Years After the 1992 South-Central Los Angeles Riot by Steve Sailer for UPI; Florence-Normandie, Reginald Denny, ... In the census tract stretching south from Florence, for example, five of every eight residences are owner-occupied. The Latino population in the census tract south of Florence doubled from 1990 to 2000, while the fl population dropped by 12 percent. One of the most common complaints of South Central residents is a lack of supermarkets, but this area is blessed with a decent one nearby, which offers a fine fresh produce section. www.isteve.com /2002_South-Central_Los_Angeles_Riot.htm   (1088 words)

William J. Clinton Foundation "VP Announces New Loans for South Central Los Angeles" LOS ANGELES -- Vice President Al Gore today (10/16) announced that 11 local business owners will receive $4.5 million in loans from the Los Angeles Community Development Bank (LACDB) to help expand business opportunities and job growth in the region. As part of that nationwide effort, the South Central Los Angeles area had been designated a Supplemental Empowerment Zone eligible to receive special assistance from the federal government. In 1995, the LACDB was created as a partnership between the city and county of Los Angeles and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help meet the needs of business owners in the South Central Los Angeles region. www.clintonfoundation.org /legacy/101697-vp-announces-new-loans-for-south-central-los-angeles.htm   (892 words)

South Central travel guide - Wikitravel South Central is a violence-prone region of Los Angeles. South Central Los Angeles and surrounding cities such as Compton and Lynwood have a reputation for violent crime. Althougth its reputation has preceeded this region of Los Angeles over the past decade it is not as dangerous or violent as others might suggest. wikitravel.org /en/Los_Angeles/South_Central   (477 words)

Damian B Pipkins' experience in South Central Los Angeles. My story is not the South Central LA on television or in music videos. Instead it is a first hand account of growing up in South Central LA "The hood". I was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1977. www.damianbpipkins.com /scla/scla1.htm   (311 words)

Operation HOPE Use Your Life Award After witnessing the devastating Los Angeles riots of 1992, John Bryant was moved to action. Although John grew up in the slums of South Central Los Angeles, he was able to find financial success as a young man. However, poor business decisions made for a turbulent life — John went from living in a beach house in Malibu to living in his Jeep, homeless for six months. South Central Los Angeles was left devastated financially and physically. www.oprah.com /uyl/angel/uyl_angel_20010507.jhtml   (433 words)

Narco News: Farmers Kicked Out of Community Farm in South-Central Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrived just before 5 a.m. Horowitz was the original owner of the property and sold it to Los Angeles at the end of the 1980s for $4.7 million. But the so-called “second floors” constructed by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution for the benefit of the wealthy and the “freeways”; that make the city an endless and undecipherable crossword puzzle are not the only parallels. www.narconews.com /Issue41/article1892.html   (1244 words)

Concerned Citizens of S.C.L.A. Concerned Citizens of S.C.L.A. The purpose of this organization shall be the fostering of interest among its members and community in social, economic and environmental conditions and growth of their community. Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles (CCSCLA) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 public benefit community-based organization whose mission is to work for social justice and economic and environmental change within the South Central community. Our 501(c)3 area of concentration is bounded by the Santa Monica Freeway to the North, the Harbor Freeway to the West, Slauson Avenue to the South and Alameda to the East. www.ccscla.org   (185 words)

L.A. City Mayor Villaraigosa Abandons 350 Poor Families in South Central Los Angeles South Central Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 4, 2006 -- An eviction notice was posted on the west gate of the South Central Farm by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department at 2:00pm, March 1, 2006. According to the notice, the 14 acre farm (the largest urban farm in the nation) needs to be vacated by Monday March 6, 2006. We call upon you to reconsider the destruction of the 14-acre community farm in South Central Los Angeles. www.prweb.com /releases/2006/3/prweb353723.htm   (650 words)

Blockbuster Online - Rize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) In 1992, after long-simmering racial tensions in Los Angeles erupted in riots following the verdicts in the Rodney King trial, a man named Tommy Johnson sought to spread a new message in a new way to the city's African-Americans. Johnson's performances became wildly popular in South Central -- so much so that at one point, 50 different groups inspired by Johnson's example were performing in the area. Rize follows the birth of clown dancing and krumping in South Central, and records how many young people have adopted the dance as a style of competition, offering a safer and healthier alternative to the gang culture that has long dominated Los Angeles. www.blockbuster.com /catalog/movieDetails/259714   (504 words)

Kosmonaut Photo Blog: Los Angeles: South Central Farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The South Central Farm is a 14-acre urban farm and community garden in South Central Los Angeles; it is considered to be the largest urban farm in the United States. After the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, the City gave the abandoned and trash-filled land to the families of the community. Los Angeles: Chef JoAnna on the Kathy Griffin Show... kosmonaut.blogspot.com /2006/03/los-angeles-south-central-farm.html   (683 words)

New Retail Site in South Central Los Angeles Markets Itself as Host of Alcohol-Free Family Events This is a particular problem in South Central Los Angeles, where, according to 2000 census figures, over half of the population is Latino. The goal of the project was to determine methods and strategies for marketing Mercado La Paloma to the greater South Central Los Angeles community as a family-centered venue for alcohol-free celebrations. Conducted a survey of 100 families in South Central Los Angeles to determine their views on the Mercado and what the market needs to do to meet their needs. www.rwjf.org /portfolios/resources/grantsreport.jsp?filename=048592.htm&iaid=144   (864 words)

South Central Los Angeles: A Community In Transition - Los Angeles Southwest College student population changing Black ... Los Angeles Southwest College perhaps best illustrates the rising tide of Latinos and other minorities sweeping into higher education institutions of deeply steeped Black heritage, and of the challenges and new growing pains such schools face. The community college is perched in Watts in South Central Los Angeles. Los Angeles Southwest college ((*)Student population, Fall 2000) Black 78% Latino 19% Asian 1% White 1% (*) Statistics for other ethnicities, as well as foreign students, were not immediately available. findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_16_18/ai_79743146   (889 words)

How to build in South-Central - Los Angeles Times The debate about the densification of Los Angeles is in full swing. Yet the state's Economic Development Department is predicting that increased demand for construction in Los Angeles County will just about equal the projected growth in demand for computer specialists. Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. David Brewer has offered his support, and Dorsey Principal George Bartleson has endorsed the concept. www.latimes.com /news/opinion/la-oe-pastor22aug22,0,123091.story?coll=la-opinion-center   (796 words)

Buy.com - Boyz N the Hood (Special Edition) : DVD : Morris Chestnut : Ice Cube : Laurence Fishburne : Cuba Gooding Jr. ... Boyz 'N' The Hood is the critically acclaimed story about three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, and of the street life where friendship, pain, danger and love combine to form reality. The violence destroying South Central Los Angeles is seen through the eyes of Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.), whose intelligence and common sense would be wasted in the 'hood if not for his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), who imparts discipline and responsibility to his son. Since the age of 10, Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.) has been living with his father in South Central Los Angeles--where the challenge lies in simply staying alive long enough to become a man. To make matters worse, Tre's friend Doughboy (Ice Cube) is on the wrong path. www.buy.com /prod/boyz_n_the_hood_special_edition_/q/loc/322/print/1/40225802.html   (772 words)

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