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Article: Resurrecting the city of angels. (riot-torn South Central Los Angeles, California) (includes partial list of organizations rebuilding Los Angeles)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
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Out of the spontaneous combustion that black Los Angeles refers to as "The Rebellion" has come a grand plan for economic revolution in America's most watched urban center. Mayor Thomas Bradley has staked the future of Los Angeles on "Rebuild L.A." (now called R.L.A.). The challenge of this partnership between government, corporate America and Los Angeles' multicultural communities cannot focus solely on resurrecting buildings. Nor can it simply return things to the way they were before the riots. The only way to truly "Rebuild L.A.," as well as the rest of the nation's urban centers, is to establish a program of job training, job creation and business ...