THE PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL IS HOLDING AUDITIONS FOR THE SPOKEN WORD FEST! Auditions will be held Saturday & Sunday in the Community Room of the Baldwin Hills Plaza. Saturday January 21 from 3pm-6pm Sunday January 22 from 2pm-5pm We ask that you bring original spoken word or poetry pieces that are no longer [...]
This Sunday hip hop legends Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Xclan, Freestyle Fellowship among others will headline a concert event in LA’s skidrow section to benefit the homeless. Calling the event Occupy Skid Row, the hip hop music fest is slated to take place at the corner of Fifth St. and [...]
Thanksgiving dinners will be available Thursday at the following locations (Listing courtesy of NBC LA.) Midnight Mission: Meals will be served to about 2,500 people living on Skid Row starting at 9:30 a.m. Fred Jordan Mission: The 68th Annual Thanksgiving event will draw about 2,500 homeless men, women and children. Meals will be served [...]
That’s right folks. Every year (in da hood) Jackson’s Limousine generously passes out hundreds of free Thanksgiving turkeys. Why we believe we’ve eaten a few ourselves having to heave out an impromptu frozen turkey or two from NaNa’s (our belated grandmother) car trunk just hours before the thing was popped in the oven—or the fryer, [...]
