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In a Largely Black and Latino Community, Neighbors Worry About the Oil Wells in Their Midst

Activists get a victory in their fight to protect South L.A. residents from a Catholic Archdiocese-owned oil drill site.

Capital & Main

Gustavo Arellano: 'He brought us in closer': The LA journey of Bishop O'Connell

LOS ANGELES — The sun rose over St. Raymond Church in Downey on Ash Wednesday as parishioners filed in for Mass. It was four days after Los Angeles Bishop David G. O'Connell was found dead at his Hacienda Heights home from five gunshot wounds.

Los Angeles Times

Erika D. Smith: 'I'm a Black woman, not a pawn.' The forgotten victim of LA's racist tape scandal

Heather Hutt, a longtime political staffer turned interim Los Angeles City Council member, was already disgusted listening to three colleagues and a prominent labor leader use racist language to justify their plot to hoard political power for Latinos.

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Is the Key to the Affordable Housing Crisis More Capitalism?

It now costs $600,000 to build a unit of affordable housing in Los Angeles. SoLa Impact is doing it for $250,000–and making money for investors.

Businessweek

Commentary: My South LA home is for sale on Zillow. But I’m not sure I’m ready to leave

My home — a little 1920s bungalow in South Los Angeles off Slauson Avenue — is for sale. In the mornings, I check my email and Zillow reminds me that something I cherish is being offered up to strangers.

Los Angeles Times

Nipsey Hussle's alleged killer heads to trial. Conviction won't bring closure to Crenshaw

LOS ANGELES — There are only nine miles between the Crenshaw neighborhood parking lot where Nipsey Hussle was shot to death in 2019 and the downtown Los Angeles courtroom where his alleged killer will stand trial this month. But to some, the two places might as well be worlds apart.

Los Angeles Times

South LA’s ‘daycrawler’: the man who’s captured the aftermath of gun violence for 20 years

‘Most outlets aren’t writing about what happened on 81st and Figueroa,’ says Nasser Baker, whose A Million Hits accounts have become a staple in the news diet of many Angelenos

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