South LA Reads Iola Leroy

South LA Reads Iola Leroy

South LA Reads Iola Leroy Frances E. W. Harper’s novel in one weekend beginning Saturday, October 17! It’s a page-turning convention—South LA teens welcome this work by one of the most prominent African American women writers of the nineteenth century.  Meet...
LA Copperfield: A South LA Bildungsroman

LA Copperfield: A South LA Bildungsroman

LA COPPERFIELD COMES TO FOSHAY THEATER JANUARY  2020 COMING (OF AGE) LA COPPERFIELD FOSHAY THEATER 1/31 & 2/1  Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.   LA...
Burning Up the Book: A Tale of Two Riots

Burning Up the Book: A Tale of Two Riots

Burning Up the Book: South LA Teens’ Production on Dickens Tells the Tale of Two Riots January 2019 “A riot is the voice of the unheard,” Maxine Waters had said, about one of the most destructive civil disturbances in US history, the LA uprising of 1992.  From...