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Boyle Heights Council Pushes Back on Naming Street After Vicente Fernández

Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:53:15 +0000

Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León is facing opposition on a proposal to rename a portion of Bailey Street after late musician Vicente Fernández. The famed singer died late last year and the councilmember is proposing the name change to the section of street in his honor, but fellow council members are pushing back.

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Brown and Out Is the Boyle Heights Festival Bringing LGBTQ Latinx Stories to the Stage

Mey Valdivia Rude — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:02:48 +0000

After meeting Latino students who were living double lives – feeling they had to hide their queerness and be “perfect immigrant sons” for their families – Josefina López felt LGBTQ Latinx writers needed a space to tell their stories. So in 2011, she set out to create the Brown and Out Festival. Originally, the plays

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This 7-Foot Virgen de Guadalupe Is a Commentary on Gentrification in Boyle Heights

Remezcla Estaff — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:48:14 +0000

In Mexican-American neighborhoods throughout the United States, it isn’t rare to see murals pay homage to la Virgen de Guadalupe. But as gentrifiers push Latinos out of the neighborhoods they have called home for generations, these murals have been painted over. For one artist who has seen his Boyle Heights neighborhood change, this shift pushed

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TRAILER: Danny Trejo Narrates This Doc on How Boyle Heights Was the Ellis Island of the West Coast

Andrew S. Vargas — Mon, 23 May 2016 17:16:22 +0000

Over the past few years, Boyle Heights has emerged as ground zero for the battle over the heart and soul of Los Angeles. As gentrification transforms the rest of LA’s cityscape and sends property values skyrocketing into the stratosphere, the historical Mexican-American community has drawn the battle lines and said ¡no pasarán! But more than

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