What If We Saw Cars Like Rolling Sculptures?

The Automobile Represents an Engine of Possibility for Black L.A., Said Panelists at “Is Car Culture the Ultimate Act of Community in Crenshaw?”

Where Crenshaw and Leimert boulevards meet, the silver glint of artist and sculptor Charles Dickson’s “Car Culture” is beginning to take shape. One of Dickson’s largest public artworks to date, the towering sculpture, a celebration of Black innovation and expression, is part of Destination Crenshaw, a new 1.3-mile, open-air monument to Black Los Angeles.

A smaller model of Dickson’s sculpture made its way to the ASU Herald Examiner Building on 11th and Broadway last week, to go on view during the Zócalo and Destination Crenshaw public program “Is Car Culture the …

In L.A., Driving the Road to Black Empowerment

For Families Like Mine, Cars Were an Engine of Social and Economic Mobility

This essay published alongside next week’s Zócalo and Destination Crenshaw event, “Is Car Culture the Ultimate Act of Community in Crenshaw?” Click here to watch …

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 …

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 …

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For Crenshaw, By Crenshaw

At “How Do You Grow a Rose From Concrete?,” Destination Crenshaw Leaders Shared Their Vision for Community Permanence in South L.A.

“We are the hub of a community,” asserted Crenshaw High School principal Donald Moorer, who opened Thursday’s Zócalo event. It was the first in a series partnering with …