Our Mission Is To Maintain And Strengthen The City's Diversity, Equity, And Accountability.
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Greetings!
Happy Spring Holidays!
Last week, we saw celebrations for Easter and Passover, as well as the second week of Ramadan. This week, the Sikh community will celebrate Vaisakhi. This is a time of renewal, rebirth, and growing closer with our spirit and our community.
We are growing as well: Launching the city's first-ever participatory budgeting program in three LA communities, opening more spaces for peace & healing, and lifting up the stories of women facing grave inequities in childbirth.
While we celebrate holidays and the coming of spring, let us feel renewed and refreshed in doing good work. There are so many buds of hope in our communities - let's make sure they blossom into new hope for Los Angeles.
Keep the faith and keep the fight,
- Capri Maddox
Executive Director
Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department
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Film Screening for Black Maternal Health Week
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This documentary film from Women in the Room Productions discusses the crisis in Black maternal healthcare and infant mortality in the U.S. followed by a panel discussion featuring filmmakers, Black Women for Wellness, doulas, people with lived experience, and more. Can't make the screening? The film will also be airing tonight on PBS.
Right now in the U.S., Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die during childbirth than white women. It's time to address this crisis. It's time to birth justice.
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The Participatory Budgeting Vote is HERE!
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It's time to vote!
The L.A. REPAIR Participatory Budgeting vote has launched. Anyone over the age of 15 who lives, works, or studies in the REPAIR Zones of Southeast LA, Boyle Heights, and Mission Hills-Panorama City-North Hills can vote online or at in-person pop-up voting events before April 30, 2023. Click here to find out if you are in a REPAIR Zone.
Later this year, we will role out the program in six more zones: Arleta-Pacoima, Leimert Park-West Adams-Baldwin Village, Skid Row, South LA, Westlake, and Wilmington + Harbor Gateway. Click here to learn more.
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RSVP: Reparations Commission at CAAM
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This public hearing will allow the community to hear directly from city commissioners about the work being done to develop a reparations pilot program for Black residents in the City of Los Angeles and provide their experiences with institutional racism that will help guide the Commission's research and development. We are so grateful to CAAM for hosting us.
Listen to the City's plans to conduct an in-depth study of harms experienced by Black Angelenos, ask questions, and share comments or your experiences with the commissioners at this Spring community event. We hope to see you there!
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LA Civil Rights recently co-hosted the 10th Annual Interfaith Iftar to celebrate the month of Ramadan with the Office of Mayor Karen Bass, Councilmember Nithya Raman of Council District 4, and faith leaders from across Los Angeles.
It was a beautiful moment to come together. We celebrated our diverse faith community and common goal of building an LA For All. It was an honor to join so many leaders of the Muslim faith for this event. To learn more about our LA for All campaign, click here.
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Peace & Healing Centers Blossom
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Last week, LA Civil Rights visited Volunteers of America Los Angeles (VOALA) and saw their hard work of bringing the Southeast LA community together. VOALA uses social, emotional, and economic healing through a food bank, healing circles, and community gathering.
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