In South Los Angeles, graffiti is as commonplace as storefront churches, ... in the Los Angeles Police Department's Newton Division in South Central L.A., there's a good chance it is.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- In an empty lot in a South Los Angeles neighborhood, artists have painted beautiful murals on walls once covered by graffiti. The project, titled Smile South Central, has ...

For some, the words South-Central Los Angeles still carry the stigma of the gang wars. ... No, he requested that the mural start halfway up the wall, leaving the bottom for the graffiti.

In Los Angeles, a city which many researchers consider to be highly racially segregated, Black and Latinx communities, like South Central Los Angeles and East Los Angeles, are the places where ...

It was followed by downtown, Westlake District, Historic South Central and East Hollywood. This year, the mayor has earmarked more than $15 million to graffiti abatement.

Los Angeles turns cameras on gang graffiti The new ... last week at three locations in this part of Los Angeles, ... and the notorious Jordan Downs housing projects of South Central.

Friday's immigration operations which took place across Los Angeles, primarily in the Westlake District, downtown, and South L.A., led to protests over the weekend, resulting in 42 arrests. Those ...

The phrase "South Central Los Angeles" can evoke a litany of negative associations for most people, but the litany is different for those who have lived or worked in South Central than those who ...

One construction site in downtown Los Angeles has been tagged with graffiti so many times that leaders decided to fight back in a most unusual way: By using art.