Recent Streetsblog LA posts about health

Politicians Raise Awareness about Blight by Sticking their Signs on Every Vacant Lot in CD 9

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 3, 2013 | 3 Comments

If there is a lot in CD 9 that is vacant, foreclosed, abandoned, or in severe disrepair, you can bet either Ana Cubas or Curren Price (especially Price) has found it and stuck a sign on it, like this lot (above) on Broadway and 48th. Or this one just up the street, at 45th. Cubas’ […]

South L.A. Happenings: Anti-Fracking Concerts, Farmers’ Markets, Sports Fairs and Runs, Bike Rides for Justice, and Detoxes

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 8, 2013 | 1 Comment

TONIGHT Sitting in a room full of California journalists and their editors last week as part of my training for a journalism fellowship, I was incredibly surprised to learn that few of them knew that fracking was going on in L.A.’s back yard. The lack of awareness has been of great concern to many of […]

Do You Know Where to Find Healthy Food in South L.A.? RideSouthLA and CSU Take Riders on a Different Kind of Food Tour

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 4, 2013 | No Comments

“They’ve been receiving it pretty decently, I must say,” Karen Whitman, the “Mama” of Mama’s Chicken, told the riders with the Healthy Food tour regarding her customers’ response to the fresh produce she recently began offering at her shop. “The more people that know about it, the more that’s coming in.” Located at the corner […]

South L.A. Gardening Renegade to Speak at TED 2013 in Long Beach

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 4, 2013 | 3 Comments

Local gardening renegade Ron Finley will be one of the speakers at this February’s TED2013, themed “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.” Finley is one of the co-founders of L.A. Green Grounds, an informal organization dedicated to transforming South Los Angeles front yards into edible gardens. At his inspiring TEDx talk last year in Vancouver, […]

Villaraigosa Offers Tough Stance on Gun Violence, but South L.A. Youth Say the Problem is Deeper than Guns

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 18, 2013 | 3 Comments

The first time he shot somebody, he says, another gang member helped him hold his hand steady as he aimed the gun out the window of the car they were sitting in. He hadn’t wanted to do it — he didn’t even know the kid he thinks he hit in the back and the head, […]

Extend Your Hours of Cyclo-topia: Start CicLAvia in South L.A.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 4, 2012 | 1 Comment

Just one week after Angelenos proved they could happily bike and walk their way through Carmageddon, they get to put their freshly honed skills to the test at the nation’s biggest car-free festival. CicLAvia‘s back, y’all! Grab your bike, your family, and/or some friends and experience almost ten miles of cyclo-topia in the heart of […]

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