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Over the last 30 years, while
L.A.’s Latinos have swelled from 18.5% of the city’s population to 46.5%, the percentage of African Americans has declined from 17% to 11.2%.
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AFTER YEARS of planning, consultation and fundraising, the Second
Baptist Church in the Central Avenue district of Los Angeles is about
to begin a $5-million renovation of its sanctuary complex.
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CZECH NOVELIST Milan Kundera wrote that “the struggle of humanity
against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
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Los Angeles arts leaders had come to protest the possible elimination
of the city’s Cultural Affairs Department last week, but Mayor James
K. Hahn had a surprise for them.
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In most quarters, it’s a foregone conclusion that African American
voters will react as a bloc against Valley secession on the Nov.
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More than 150,000 visual, literary and performing artists live and
work in the Los Angeles region.
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Most political observers have written off the African American
mayoral vote as overwhelmingly solid for City Atty.
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Changes proposed by President George
W. Bush’s controversial Office
of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives are radical in the extreme,
causing jitters throughout the religious community.
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From Los Angeles to Harlem, African American churches are fast
becoming prime engines of community renewal.
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