Justo Almario’s Afro-Colombian Ensemble performs at the 2024 Leimert Park Jazz Festival. The sixth annual festival will take place Aug. 30 at the Baldwin […]
Tag: Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
Leimert Park Juneteenth Festival back on schedule
Wave Staff and Wire Reports SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Organizers of the annual Leimert Park Juneteenth Festival announced June 6 that this year’s celebration was […]
Body Butter Lady empowers all to love their skin
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer INGLEWOOD — As a child growing up in her native Senegal, Marianne Ndiaye, now known in Inglewood as the “Body […]
Stars turn out for opening night of Pan African Film Festival
By Cynthia Gibson Contributing Writer BEVERLY HILLS — The world premiere of the music comedy “A Hip Hop Story,” kicked-off two weeks of art, culture, […]
Leimert Park Book Fair returns to outdoor mall
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer LEIMERT PARK — During a year when a host of celebrities are releasing revealing and shocking memoirs, producer/director and three-time […]
‘Smash-‘n-grabs’ sparking promise of jobs, training
By Ray Richardson Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES —The increasing number of smash-and-grab robberies at retail outlets in the area has prompted community organizations and businesses […]
Malik Books to host Eboni Williams signing
Wave Staff Report BALDWIN HILLS — As part of its celebration of Black History Month, Malik Books in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza will host […]
WEST COAST HARLEM? New South L.A. projects seek to improve quality of Black life
By Janice Hayes Kyser Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — Leimert Park civic leader Gina Fields has never seen so many cranes, cones and construction workers […]
Pan African Film Festival kicks off April 19
By Cynthia Gibson Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — As a Black teenager in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the 1950s, Ayuko Babu didn’t see himself in any […]
‘Tyler Perry-like’ studio coming to South L.A.
By Janice Hayes Kyser Contributing Writer SOUTH LOS ANGELES — A proposed creative campus in the Crenshaw Corridor would provide what is being called a […]