Greetings!
May is a time of celebration in Los Angeles. This month is both Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and LA is lucky enough to count both the Jewish and AAPI community as central to our city's history.
With so many examples of division and exclusion in the world today, it's important to honor these celebrations of inclusion, belonging and heritage. We celebrate LA by celebrating every community that calls it home.
In doing so, we find that there is far more that unites us than divides us. We discover common hopes and new ideas. The Los Angeles story is not told with one voice or language, but rather a choir of diverse voices making this city the most dynamic and creative city on Earth.
That is something worth fighting for. At LA Civil Rights, we are honored to celebrate our diverse communities, and to keep working for equity and inclusion for everyone who calls our city home.
Keep the faith and keep the fight,
- Capri Maddox
Executive Director,
Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department