Afternoon protest today against Metro developments in Boyle Heights

Community members and activists will march from Downtown LA to Boyle Heights Thursday to protest what they call “irresponsible” development practices by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportati... Read More...

Announcement: Deadline to run for Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council this Thursday

Those interested in running for a seat on the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council must file candidate applications by Thursday, Sept. 13, 2011. There are 19 open board seats available, including one seat for... Read More...

Q&A: Roosevelt HS teacher explains why Boyle Heights students may not relate to 9/11 terrorist attacks

Photo by Flickr user KOMUnews / Creative CommonsTuesday marked the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in which four airliners hijacked by Islamist militants killed nearly 3,000 people. Although the attacks that occurred that day ar... Read More...

Library cards could be ID’s for undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles

Photo by Flickr user Mely-o/ Creative Commons Library cards could soon be a form of identification used by the city’s undocumented immigrants to open bank accounts and access other services, the... Read More...

Imagining a park at Piggyback Yard

A volunteer team of architects, landscape architects and urban planners -- dubbed PBy -- received an architectural design award last June for its conceptual master plan for a re-imagined Piggyback Yard./ Court... Read More...

Before and after: Historic Boyle Hotel reopens its doors [Photo slideshow]

Once known as the “Gateway of Boyle Heights,” the Victorian-style Boyle Hotel-Cummings Block reopened its doors Thursday after a two-year, $24.6 million restoration. Built in 1889, the four-story luxury hotel””originally the tallest ... Read More...

A new home for Boyle Heights street vendors at El Mercado del Pueblo

Graciela Garcia prepared pupusas for the opening of Mercado del Pueblo in Boyle Heights./ Photo by Aurelia Ventura / La Opinión Originally published in La Opinión Street vendors in the area o... Read More...

Boyle Heights Missing From Political Map: With Voting Comes Change

A petition drive organized by InnerCity Struggle and California Calls at the corner of Cesar Chavez and Soto last April./ Photo by Andrew Román With the general elections just a few months away, citiz... Read More...

Diary of a DREAMer: A Salvadoran Immigrant Story

Young undocumented immigrants, or “Dreamers,” have been at the forefront of advocacy for a path to citizenship. Deferred Action, a policy announced by the Obama administration in June, will allow many of these young people to have temporary legal ... Read More...

Remembering the life and legacy of Latino Journalist Rubén Salazar and the Chicano Moratorium

Photo by Flickr user cindylu/ Creative Commons Forty-two years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, more than 20,000 demonstrators, most of them Chicanos, held a march through East Los Angeles in protest of the Vietnam W... Read More...

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