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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
Launching AAPI LA
On May 3rd, LA Civil Rights joined Mayor Garcetti, Councilmember John Lee, Councilmember Nithya Raman and community leaders to kickoff Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Los Angeles. The city also declared May 3rd AAPI LA Day, to recognize Los Angeles as an AAPI capital, and launched the AAPI LA initiative which works to amplify and empower AAPI stories across Los Angeles.

LA Civil Rights is proud to celebrate our Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian communities that call Los Angeles home.
Marking 30 Years Since LA's Civil Unrest
Last Friday was the 30th anniversary of the LA Civil Unrest. To honor this day, LA Civil Rights joined community leaders, faith leaders, and the family of Rodney King and Latasha Harlins on the corner of Florence and Normandie. Together, we reflected on how far our city has come - and the work that still lies ahead.

If we are going to find true healing, we must find justice & equity - and we must built it together. Standing shoulder to shoulder with Korean American and African American leaders on April 29th was a reminder of all we can achieve when we built solidarity from our struggle, and progress from our pain. It is an honor to be in this fight with you.
Join Us for The Climate Equity LA Series Finale
This Thursday at 6PM, LA Civil Rights will be on a panel hosted by the city's Climate Emergency Mobilization Office (CEMO). This is the third and final event in their Inaugural Climate Equity LA Virtual Workshop Series, exploring the climate crisis through the impacts on different communities.

One of the main goals at the CEMO is to advance equity in the City of Los Angeles’ climate and energy policies so that environmental justice and other vulnerable communities benefit and thrive from our transition to a sustainable economy. Without including all communities, we won’t solve the climate crisis. All of us must be part of the solution.

Join Executive Director Capri Maddox, CEMO Director Marta Segura, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, Public Works Commissioner Mike Davis, Agustin Cabrera of Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) and Estuardo Mazarlegos with RePower LA for this conversation.
Happy Jewish American Heritage Month
Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! Los Angeles is fortunate to be home to a vibrant and historic Jewish community that have been central to LA's growth. Did you know the first charitable organization in LA was a Jewish organization, founded in 1854? Or that Silver Lake is named after LA's first Jewish City Council President, Herman Silver?

LA is full of Jewish history and heritage, and LA Civil Rights is proud to celebrate LA's Jewish community all year long.

Click here to learn more about Jewish history in Los Angeles.
Final Episode of Forward Together
Last week we aired the third and final episode of Forward Together, our podcast with the Human Relations Commission on 30 years since LA's civil unrest.

Our final episode featured Haewon Asfaw, co-founder of Black Lives Matter-LA, and Gonji Lee, a therapist and community organizer. Haewon and Gonji dived deep into the generational impact of '92, and its affects on social movements today.

Missed an episode? Don't worry, you can still hear them all at anchor.fm/lacivilrights.
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