Recent Streetsblog LA posts about redlining

Jermaine Welch shows off the shoe he had custom painted in Nipsey Hussle's honor while waiting for Hussle's funeral procession to pass through the intersection at Crenshaw and Slauson on April 11. Hussle was killed in front of his store, The Marathon, on March 31. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Nipsey Hussle Understood Cities Better than You. Why Didn’t You Know Who He Was?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 15, 2019 | 22 Comments

"I swore to tell the world if I made it out/The truth about these L.A. streets and all what they about"

Redlining, the practice of denying loans to communities of color in the 1930s, was one of many ways segregation was embedded in the DNA of cities and continues to shape their growth and development today. Source: Mapping Inequality - the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab

Symposium Kicks off “Undesign the Red Line” Exhibit Thursday

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 6, 2019 | 9 Comments

"Undesign the Redline" kicks off its Los Angeles residency at LATTC Thursday with a day-long symposium. Exhibit runs through March 31.