Sahra Sulaiman
Sahra is a documentary photographer and researcher who has been 99.5% car-free since buying a road bike and riding it across Spain on a dare in 1996. A well-travelled M.A. and A.B.D. in International Relations, she also is deeply invested in LA as a regular volunteer with at-risk teens in local-area high schools and is currently working on a year-long photography project documenting the difficult circumstances which many of them endure. She seeks to use her skills for gathering unique stories to bring a more human dimension to discussions about the future of transit in Los Angeles.
sahra@streetsblog.org
Posts by Sahra
2013
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Jun 14:
Boyle Heights, Here I Come…
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Jun 13:
Residents Rally Today to Protest Closure of Yet Another Grocery in South L.A.
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Jun 11:
The People That You Meet When You’re Riding Down the Street
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Jun 05:
City Lites’ Sports and Wellness Fair Brings Out Families for Health and Fun
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May 30:
Fight Fracking (today!), See the City Lites, Take a Nature Tour, and Play Kickball
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May 28:
Watts Village Theater Company Takes “Meet Me @ Metro IV” “Home” to Watts
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May 23:
Sometimes, You Just Need to Set Aside the Data and Explore an Area by Bike
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May 22:
Infrastructure, Access, and Passage: Neighbors in West Adams Debate Fate of 4th Ave. Pedestrian Bridge
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May 17:
For Many Angelenos, Every Day is Bike-to-Work Day
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May 13:
A Tale of Two Communities, Part II: LAPD Finds it Stirred Up Hornets’ Nest by Profiling USC Students of Color
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May 03:
Politicians Raise Awareness about Blight by Sticking their Signs on Every Vacant Lot in CD 9
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Apr 30:
A Tale of Two Communities: New Security Measures at USC Intensify Profiling of Lower-Income Youth of Color
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Apr 24:
Area Streetsblog Writer Struggles Mightily with Planner-ese with LA/2B Staff and Planning Students from UCLA
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Apr 22:
For Some Riding in CicLAvia, it is about More than Just Having Fun (Although Fun is Allowed)
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Apr 16:
Riding to CicLAvia from South L.A.? We’ve Got Four Feeder Rides for You!
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Apr 12:
Ring, Ring! Who’s There? The Leimert Phone Company!
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Apr 08:
M&W4M&W: Organization Seeks Vibrant, Active & Excited 20-somethings Ready to Go the Distance…for their Community
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Apr 02:
South L.A. Steps it Up with Inspirational L.A. 2050 Proposals: Great Ideas from the Advancement Project, Black Worker Center, Community Coalition, Community Health Councils, Neighborhood Land Trust, TRUST South L.A., and the WLCAC with Civic Projects
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Mar 29:
Ask and Ye Shall Receive: Pothole Be Gone!
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Mar 27:
The Pothole That Ate Manhattan. And a Small Child.
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Mar 25:
Balancing Safety, Security, and Saturation on the Blue Line — Part I
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Mar 20:
Survey Says…: Today is Last Day to Tell City How to Spend Grants to Aid Youth and Families
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Mar 15:
Fracking is the “Latest Cause of Silly People” and is Great for the Economy!
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Mar 14:
Two New Ghost Bikes Go Up to Honor Fallen Cyclists in South L.A.
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Mar 13:
South L.A. Needs YOU to Speak Up at Regional Budget Day on Saturday, March 16.
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Mar 08:
South L.A. Happenings: Anti-Fracking Concerts, Farmers’ Markets, Sports Fairs and Runs, Bike Rides for Justice, and Detoxes
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Mar 04:
Do You Know Where to Find Healthy Food in South L.A.? RideSouthLA and CSU Take Riders on a Different Kind of Food Tour
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Mar 01:
New Bike Lanes on Vermont: One Small Step Forward Where Three or Four Big Steps Are Needed
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Feb 22:
Little Green Spaces Have Big Impacts in South L.A.
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Feb 20:
Metro Diary: Three Trains, a Tourist, Some Eager-Beaver Sheriffs, and a Former Foster Child…All in the Space of an Hour
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Feb 18:
Bike Lanes Are Good for Angelenos’ Love Lives (and Many Other Things), We Learn from Valentine’s Day Hearing
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Feb 13:
LADOT Holds Singles’ Night…er, a Public Hearing for First Year Bike Lanes in Central and South L.A. on Valentine’s Day
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Feb 08:
Rides, Garden Workshops, Beautification Projects, Art, and Film in South L.A. this Weekend
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Feb 06:
TONIGHT: Offer Comments on How Federal Funds Should Be Spent in South L.A.
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Feb 04:
South L.A. Gardening Renegade to Speak at TED 2013 in Long Beach
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Jan 29:
Rorshach Test: What Do You See When You Look at this Photo?
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Jan 28:
Clean-up Effort of a “Beauty Spot” Unearths a Strange History in Watts
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Jan 24:
TONIGHT: the Crenshaw Line, Fracking, and Bike Ambassador Meetings! And Much, Much More
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Jan 22:
Black Kids on Bikes Spread the Gospel of the Bike at the King Day Parade
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Jan 18:
MLK Weekend Offers Much Ado About Awesome Things to Do
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Jan 18:
Villaraigosa Offers Tough Stance on Gun Violence, but South L.A. Youth Say the Problem is Deeper than Guns
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Jan 15:
How Far is Too Far?: Fortress USC and the Struggle to Keep Students Safe
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Jan 11:
Operation Pothole in Watts
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Jan 10:
Hurray for Pedestrian Improvements! Now, If Only Drivers Would Respect Them…
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Jan 08:
Calling All Transit Users: LA/2B Needs Your Feedback (That Means YOU, South L.A.)
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Jan 03:
Preliminary Drafts of New Community Plans Released for South L.A. Region
2012
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Dec 21:
Hit-and-Run Kills 50-year Old Man at Western and Vernon
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Dec 20:
Dear Santa: the 50 Parks Initiative is Great, but Please Bring South L.A. Some Green Space for Christmas
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Dec 14:
Let There Be Light: Operation Firefly Lands in South L.A.
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Dec 13:
Taking a Bike Tour of Watts, with a Team of L.A. City Planners
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Dec 07:
When a Door Closes, a Window Always Opens…Because Someone Will Saw Through the Fence
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Dec 05:
Unsolved Hit-and-Runs Leave Families in Painful Limbo
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Nov 30:
What a Difference a Year (and a Union) Makes: An Update on the Unionization of Carwasheros
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Nov 28:
When You and I Collide…We Probably Won’t Report It.
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Nov 21:
Touring Metro’s “Lab” with David Sutton, Director of TAP Operations
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Nov 20:
Meet the Falcons: How a Lost Bid for the Youth Football Championship Can Still Be a Win for a Community
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Nov 16:
Los Angeles Walks Moseys into Leimert Park, Speaks with Residents about Aspirations for Their Neighborhoods
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Nov 13:
South L.A. Neighborhood Bike Ambassadors Confer with Planners on Bike and Mobility Plans
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Nov 07:
Celebrating Victory on Election Night in South L.A. with Community Coalition
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Nov 07:
Democracy is Much More than Voting. Sometimes it Involves Bikes. And Gardening.
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Nov 02:
Weekend Guide of Community Activity and Activism in South LA
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Oct 25:
Multicultural Communities for Mobility Honors One of Our Favorite South L.A. Activists
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Oct 22:
Riders Pedal-Push for Unity and Raise Awareness about Police Brutality
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Oct 22:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 19:
HNTB Wins Design Competition for Sixth Street Viaduct
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Oct 19:
Pedestrian Donuts in the Sky?
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Oct 19:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 18:
Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture Today at 10:18 a.m.
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Oct 18:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 17:
Stopping by an Accident on a Balmy Evening…
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Oct 17:
Interactive Post of the Day: De-wonkifying Transit
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Oct 17:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 15:
Late to Its Own Party, Endeavour At Least Has Decency to Put On a Good Show
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Oct 15:
Today’s Headlines
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Oct 12:
Extra! Extra! “Fracking is Safe!” Says New Study
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Oct 11:
Maps, Times, and Dates, Oh My!: Your Guide to Seeing the Endeavour this Weekend
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Oct 08:
CicLAvia Successfully Rides Again
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Oct 05:
This Saturday: Do Good in Crenshaw and Learn About the Transformative Power of Art for Those Who Have Been Incarcerated in West Adams
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Oct 04:
Extend Your Hours of Cyclo-topia: Start CicLAvia in South L.A.
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Oct 01:
Sunday Stabbing on the Blue Line Spotlights Questions of Safety on the Trains
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Sep 27:
“South L.A. Democratic Spaces” Exhibit Launches Tonight at USC
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Sep 26:
Metro Diary: Planes, Trains, and Confusing Transfers with TAP
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Sep 21:
Endeavouring to Find Opportunities for Communities in the Wake of the Shuttle’s Passage
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Sep 18:
Science Center Given Approval to Remove Nearly 400 Trees to Make Way for Shuttle
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Sep 14:
Healthy Food Walk Around USC Neighborhood Unearths Tensions Between the University and the Community
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Sep 07:
A Party and Ride/Walk Linked to Fresh Food Opportunities Just South of USC this Weekend
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Sep 06:
Neighborhood Bike Ambassador Program Officially Launches in South L.A.
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Sep 05:
Approximately 8,000 Fans Took the Expo Line to the USC – Hawai’i Game this Past Weekend.
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Aug 31:
When Good Intentions are Not Enough: LA/2B Struggles to Reach Out to South L.A.
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Aug 27:
CicLAvia South East: Building a Movement Ride by Ride
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Aug 27:
Metro Bus 51 Collides with Blue Line, Sends 32 People to Hospital
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Aug 27:
The Week in Livable Streets Events
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Aug 23:
South L.A. Calendar: Urban Farming, a CicLAvia Southeast Event, Community Coalition’s Power Festival, and a Neighborhood Bike Ambassador Meeting
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Aug 22:
“Frack Off, Folks!” Says California Legislature in Killing Anti-Fracking Bills
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Aug 17:
Ridership Continues to Increase on Expo Line
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Aug 15:
Gateway to the Garden: Community Services Unlimited, Inc. is Featured in Short Documentary
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Aug 14:
Ouch! That Hurts!: On-the-Job Hazards
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Aug 09:
Listening to the Streets in Order to Make Them More Livable: Part III in a Series
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Aug 08:
Space Nerds Unite: The Shuttle’s Arrival is Now Confirmed!
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Aug 02:
Educational Opportunity: Dr. Eric Walsh Discusses Health Effects of High Density Development on Children
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Jul 31:
And So It Begins: The Watts Cyclery Takes the First Steps Toward Opening a Bike Co-op
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Jul 27:
“Food Desert” Oases: Converting Corner Stores into Healthy Neighborhood Markets in South L.A. (Part I in a Series)
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Jul 26:
Shuttlewatch 2012: Preparing the Route for Endeavour
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Jul 23:
Spreading the Gospel of CicLAvia in Southeast L.A.
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Jul 20:
This Weekend in South L.A.: Join in the Effort to Expand CicLAvia Southward or Learn to Garden
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Jul 19:
Main Street, South L.A.-Style.
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Jul 18:
Walking in (South) L.A.: It’s Hard Out Here for a Pedestrian, Part I
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Jul 12:
Desperately Seeking Shade: How South L.A. Bus Riders Weather the Elements
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Jul 09:
Experiments in Enhancing the Experience of Public Art Along the Expo Line
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Jul 02:
Observers of the Spectacle: South L.A. Residents Greet Cyclists on Sunday’s Peace, Love, and Family Ride
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Jun 29:
Bikes, Health, Activism, and Gardening Galore Await You in South LA this Weekend
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Jun 27:
Harnessing Momentum to Write a New Chapter in the History of South L.A.
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Jun 25:
What You Wish You Hadn’t Missed this Weekend: Art, Community, Masks, and Ancestors in Leimert Park
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Jun 19:
Extra! Extra! Get Your Free Pass to Ride the Expo Line!
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Jun 18:
Unpacking the Numbers: Measuring Success One Rider at a Time
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Jun 15:
Grab Your Kid, Grab Your Bike…and Ride With Us On Father’s Day
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Jun 14:
The Artful DOGGR: DOGGR Embarks on a Listening Tour, is Told to Take a Fracking Leap
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Jun 12:
Los Ryderz Take a Spin Through the Neighborhood
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Jun 08:
South L.A. Happenings: Expanding CicLAvia, Raising Chickens, Riding for Solidarity, Health, and Fun, and Fighting Fracking
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Jun 07:
Metro Diary: Getting Harassed by THAT Guy
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Jun 05:
Saving the World, One Garden at a Time
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May 31:
A Day in the Life of A Safety Ambassador on the Expo Line
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May 25:
South L.A.-ify Your Weekend
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May 22:
We Want Dancing Stop Signs: My Daily Moment of Zen
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May 21:
Critical Minimum with the East Side Riders: From Watts to Long Beach on a Friday Night
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May 17:
Area Cyclist Attempts to Enjoy Metro’s Bike Week, Fails Miserably
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May 14:
Observations from Yesterday’s Gun Buyback and a Conversation with a Street Vendor of Bikes
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May 10:
There’s Fruit in Them Thar Trees!: Pick Fruit in South L.A. this Weekend
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May 09:
The Challenge of Encouraging Recreational Riding in Watts: A Chat with the Owner of Watts Cyclery
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May 04:
Metro Diary: It’s 9:30 P.M….Do You Know Who’s Riding Metro?
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May 01:
Celebrating Transit and Remembering Riots: L.A. Moves Forward and Looks Back All in One Weekend
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Apr 27:
Are You Ready to Rumble?: Streetfights Take More Violent Turns
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Apr 24:
Music, Art, and Mimes, Oh My!: The Expo Line Throws Itself a Party
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Apr 20:
Touring the New Expo Line with the “Ethnic Media”
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Apr 19:
South L.A. Celebrates Earth Day with Community Services Unlimited, Inc.
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Apr 16:
Finding Quiet Moments in a Crush of 100,000 CicLAvistas is Easier than You Think
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Apr 13:
Start Your CicLAvia in South Los Angeles!
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Apr 13:
Community Services Unlimited, Inc.: Cultivating Communities by Cultivating Gardens
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Apr 05:
It’s a Small World: How Gang Activity Impacts the Livability of Streets
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Apr 03:
Riding with the Real Rydaz: Planning for a July Tour of South L.A.
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Mar 30:
Spring Into Health this Weekend at a Family Festival at Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center
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Mar 29:
Do I Look Suspicious to You? Livable Streets Starts with Equal Access to Streets
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Mar 27:
What Lies Beneath: Using Community Gardens to Recapture Shared Culture
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Mar 23:
Go Frack Yourself, Part II: PXP Blames Cracked Home Foundations on Pesky Earthquake Faults
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Mar 22:
Has Ball, Needs Field: A Parking Lot Becomes a Fútbol Field for an Afternoon
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Mar 20:
Transforming Transit-Oriented Spaces into Theatrical Happenings: A conversation with the Artistic Director of the Watts Village Theater Company
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Mar 13:
Rock Me Like A Hurricane. Or a Tornado. Or an Impending Ice Age: the carbon cost of the LACMA rock.
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Mar 09:
Go Frack Yourself: neighbors in Baldwin Hills turn out to talk fracking with Plains Exploration & Production and DOGGR
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Mar 07:
Tour de Watts: Join us for an event to celebrate the launch of Streetsblog in South L.A.
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Mar 02:
Parks: Sometimes They Take a While to Grow on You
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Mar 01:
All Biked Up and Nowhere to Go: Four Boys in Florence-Firestone
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Feb 28:
Metro Diaries: 6 Stops with Daniel the Candy Man
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Feb 24:
Planning for Community Engagement in Urban Planning
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Feb 22:
The Human Cost of Car-Centrism: Carwashes are the New Sweatshops
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Feb 16:
A Garden Grows in Florence-Firestone
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Feb 14:
Activist Profile: The East Side Riders — Riding for Love
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Feb 10:
Rolling with the Real Rydaz Low Rider Bike Club
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Feb 07:
A Ride to the Watts Towers: More than a Ride to the Watts Towers.
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Feb 01:
Building Community One Story at a Time
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Jan 24:
Carving Out “Sacred” Space for Culture in the Streets