Sahra Sulaiman

Just before the Christmas holiday, the Department of City Planning released the Preliminary Drafts of the New Community Plans for South and Southeast Los Angeles. The plans, along with those for the West Adams-Baldwin Hills-Leimert Park area, together comprise the approximately 45-square mile South L.A. Planning Region. It is an area that Principal City Planner Faisal Roble acknowledged to Curbed in May 2012 had long been neglected with regard to planning (with the Crenshaw Corridor being the key exception).

Authorities are searching for the driver of a dark-colored, older model Lexus that ran down 50-year old Tracy Louis Walker this past Wednesday. He was struck at 3:25 p.m. while crossing in the crosswalk at Western and Vernon by a vehicle traveling north along Western. Walker sustained life-threatening injuries from the impact and was taken to the hospital where he later died.

While hiking in Griffith Park, my friend remarked that he found it refreshing to be surrounded by so much wildlife.

I don't know about you, but I feel naked riding a bike at night without lights.

The young men watched the cyclists ride their way past the Watts Towers and post up at the corner of Graham Street.

The South Los Angeles Wetlands Park located at 54th and Avalon is having a rough go of it these days.

If you've ever been the victim of a random act of violence, you know the deep anger and sadness it can inspire in a person. How it can make you question what you think you know about people. And how vulnerable it can leave you feeling.

Earlier this year, workers at three Los Angeles carwashes were successful in unionizing.

"Shut up, bitch!" the injured African-American cyclist snapped at the Latina woman on her phone sitting next to him. "You talk too much!"