Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson

Los Angeles Communities Are Wealthy Communities

Marqueece Harris-Dawson is the Los Angeles City Council president pro tempore. He represents the Eighth District of Los Angeles, where Destination Crenshaw is being erected. Before sitting on the panel for the Zócalo/Destination Crenshaw program “How Do You Grow a Rose From Concrete?,” he sat down in our green room to talk about his childhood hero, cashews, and the church parking lot you can find him at.

Architect Gabrielle Bullock

I Wanted to Change How My People Lived

Gabrielle Bullock is a principal architect and the director of global diversity at the architecture firm Perkins&Will. The second Black woman to graduate from the architecture department of Rhode Island School of …

Becoming Part of the Solution

At Crenshaw High, Students and Their Struggles Are Now the Curriculum

Crenshaw High on 11th Avenue in Los Angeles has a bad reputation. When I told a teacher at Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in South LA that I’d be …