Breaking: Saturday’s “Tour De Watts” Ride/Party Postponed
The Tour de Watts 2012 was canceled, but will be holding a bike ride “launch party” in South L.A. with all our new friends sometime soon. As soon as we have a new plan, we’ll let you know.
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“Bottom line is, citizens want to be involved, they want to be engaged in the process of figuring out how we reprogram our streets, how we reprogram our communities, making it more livable, making it more desirable, making it safer.” So said councilmember for the 9th District, Curren Price, when interviewed by KCET’s Nic Cha […]
Taking a Bike Tour of Watts, with a Team of L.A. City Planners
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The young men watched the cyclists ride their way past the Watts Towers and post up at the corner of Graham Street. Puzzled, they pulled me aside and asked what was going on. What was the occasion? I had to laugh. “You want to know what all these white people are doing in your neighborhood, […]
The Tour de Watts Gathers Momentum, Signals Good Things Ahead for Watts
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While heading to South L.A. for the United Riders of South L.A.‘s Tour de Watts this past Saturday, I was reminded of a guest lecture I gave in a USC journalism class a few weeks ago. For an hour and a half, I talked about how fortunate I felt to be covering South L.A. and […]
The Ride4Love Sets Powerful Example of Unity through Diversity in Watts
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“Lemme guess,” I said to East Side Rider Dale Williams as he approached the Ride4Love’s ride captains with a printout of the route, “you worked all night last night.” The big-hearted 55-year-old never fails to amaze me. He often works long nights cleaning venues, gets home in time to catch a couple of hours of […]
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Metro Public Safety, Eastside L Line, Alhambra Wash, Metrolink, P.E. for the family in Watts, AfroLatinx Futurism Arts Fest, CivSalon, and more
All Biked Up and Nowhere to Go: Four Boys in Florence-Firestone
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FOUR BOYS WITH BIKES between the ages of 9 and 13 stand in a yard along Hooper St. in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood, looking warily at me as I pull up on my bike. Victor, a solid kid with a swipe of grease across his cheek, tightens his grip on a wrench as the others glance […]