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Transcript: Profile: LA City Council votes to change South Central's name to South Los Angeles
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- NPR All Things Considered
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- April 9, 2003
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Profile: LA City Council votes to change South Central's name to South
Los Angeles
Host: MELISSA BLOCK, ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
And I'm Robert Siegel.
In Los Angeles, the City Council voted today to change the name of
the South Central neighborhood to South Los Angeles. Residents say
they want a new identity for the area, one that erases its images
of riots, poverty and gang violence. NPR's Rachael Myrow reports.
RACHAEL MYROW reporting:
The `central' in South Central refers to Central Avenue. Back in
the first ...