Los Angeles native Terrell Tilford is the owner and creative director of Band of Vices. The Black-owned art exhibit was founded in 2015 and is located on the lively street of West Adams Boulevard.
Curating...
The Television, Film, and Media Studies department hosted the “Blood In Blood Out” book release published by Hat & Beard Press, along with a film screening to celebrate the 30th anniversary.
TVFM...
Saadia Jones, Social Media Editor
• October 25, 2023
When they’re visiting Inglewood City Hall, most residents don’t realize there’s a local celebrity in their midst.
Sharis Rhodes, executive assistant to the mayor, was crowned the 2023 -2024 Ms...
Tristan Longwell, Community News Digital Editor-In-Chief
• September 28, 2023
The aroma of Mexican food wafting out of busy food trucks. Colorful parade floats and dresses. Aguas frescas served up in souvenir cups. The energy of music and traditional dancers.
The flavors, richness...
Tigran Aslanyan, Community News Reporter
• September 28, 2023
Help with homework. A safe place to go after school. Classes and events. Free printing services. Computers with Internet service.
These are some of the resources that make Los Angeles libraries an essential...
Alyssah Hall, Senior Multimedia Reporter
• January 27, 2023
I enrolled at Cal State LA for the fall semester of 2021, and during that time the majority of classes were on zoom due to the pandemic. I always wanted to find community with other Black students but...
Adrian Leal, Community News Reporter
• December 2, 2022
Self-proclaimed “Necromantic Black Doom” band Worm has created its most refined and masterful release to date, blessing the listener with an elegant yet dirge-filled 26-minute EP, and leaving anyone...
Asha Johnson, Community News Reporter
• November 14, 2022
Growing up as a Mexican and Black child in Inglewood, Derrick Paris said he noticed that people like him rarely got opportunities to perform or engage seriously in the arts.
Paris has had a love for...
Dozens of people gathered around windows at the Oxy Arts Gallery in Eagle Rock last month.
But they didn't see faces staring back. They saw a collection of multicolored post-it notes filled with self-reflections...
Andres Perez, Community News Reporter
• September 27, 2022
Why create murals in economically depressed areas? Those areas need money and resources, not art, some might say.
Javier Ruiz, of the H.E.R.R. Foundation in Alhambra, gets it: “The mural is just on...
Many grandparents spoil their grandkids with gifts.
This “meemaw” is different because she does that for complete strangers of all ages.
Laura Mayer, 57, gives away knicknacks to kids and adults...
