Erin J. Aubry

Photo by Virginia Lee HunterAT FIRST GLANCE, THE 10TH DISTRICT CITY Council race offers voters the same choice they've had for the last 12 years: Nate Holden or not. ("What?" one incredulous district resident exclaimed. "Is he running again?") Snicker if you must, but the veteran councilman has proven he......

Photo by Ted SoquiMagic was in the air in a most unlikely place: a community meeting in a drab, school-cafeteria-size room at the Department of Water and Power, across the street from the Crenshaw mall. The meeting was of an advisory body to the city's Community Redevelopment Agency, one of......

Photo by Debra DiPaolo The news reverberated this month with the shock of a loud and sudden thunderclap in the midst of L.A.’s bone-dry winter. It was revealed that Macy’s — which had just closed a historic store that served the black community — also had pledged nearly $1 million......

Photo by Larry Hirshowitz Los Angeles is wonderful. Nowhere in the United States is the Negro so well and beautifully housed, nor the average efficiency and intelligence in the colored population so high . . . Out here in this matchless Southern California there would seem to be no limit......

In 1994, architect and developer Michael Anderson felt on the verge of realizing an ambitious project he had been shopping around for months: a five-story office building that would have brought hundreds of government employees to the Crenshaw area and provided its economy with a badly needed shot in the......

He came to clear the air, but when it was over Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas had confirmed rather than allayed growing suspicions that he wanted to sink Magic Johnson’s multimillion-dollar redevelopment project in the Santa Barbara Plaza. The bad blood stemmed, as Ridley-Thomas implied that night, from developer Johnson’s avowed interest......