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The Inner-City Games were founded by Daniel Hernandez of the Hollenbeck Youth Center in 1991 as a way to build self-confidence, self-reliance, and camaraderie among inner-city youth. The Games began in East Los Angeles with more than 40,000 youths competing in athletic and academic competitions.
A new analysis of Los Angeles Police Department data showed that Latinos and Black people have been arrested at a "disproportionate rate" between 2019 to 2022. ... according to InnerCity Struggle ...
Henry Perez, 46, a Los Angeles resident who entered UCLA in 1995 and is the executive director of the nonprofit organization InnerCity Struggle, remembers being part of "one of the last, if not ...
In 2009, seven James A. Garfield High School teachers, along with students, parents, and representatives from community-based organizations, such as Inner City Struggle, joined and submitted a proposal to the Los Angeles Unified School District Public School Choice motion in order to found the proposed East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy as a ...
Inner-City Filmmakers (ICF) is an entertainment industry career-training and job placement program located in Santa Monica, California for marginalized, low-income youth living in Los Angeles County. The non-profit organization was founded in 1993 following the LA Riots by film editor Fred Heinrich and producer Stephania Lipner to address ...
Similarly, Los Angeles officials have slogged through years of negotiations around a sweeping lawsuit, backed by business interests and residents, that targeted the city’s failure to move people ...
11 August 1965, Los Angeles, California, US, The McCone Commission investigated the riots finding that causes included poverty, inequality, racial discrimination and the passage, in November 1964, of Proposition 14 on the California ballot overturning the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which established equality of opportunity for black home buyers. [7]
The 2020 documentary film Fire on the Hill tells the story of three South Central Los Angeles urban cowboys, including members of Compton Cowboys, and their struggle to preserve a threatened culture by rebuilding their community stable, "The Hill," after a mysterious fire burnt it down.