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Lynell George

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Lynell George is an award-winning Los Angeles-based journalist, essayist and author. Her work explores social issues and human behavior as well as urban histories, visual art, music and literature. A former Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly staff writer, her work has appeared in Alta Journal, Boom: A Journal of California, Preservation, Smithsonian, Oxford American, KCET | Artbound, KPCC | The Frame, among other publications. She is the author of three books of nonfiction: "No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels" (Verso), "After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame" (Angel City Press) and her most recent — "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler" (Angel City Press), published in 2020, was a 2021 Hugo Award Finalist. Photo credit: Noé Montes

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African American men and women in a parade of cars during Cinco de Mayo in Compton.
'You Had to be There': Compton in Literature and Memory
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Keeping Time: John Reynolds Invokes Lost Los Angeles in Landscapes and Song
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Writer Claudia Rankine On White Blindness, The Black Body, and the Freedom to Live
Award-winning writer Claudia Rankine's newest book "Citizen: An American Lyric" is a collection of poetry, prose and imagery that addresses race, racism and privilege though several voices. The work has been adapted into a play at the Fountain Theatre ...
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The View from the Air: Mapping L.A. Radio
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Carolyn Kozo Cole & Kathy Kobayashi at LAPL, 1996 | Photo: Mel Melcon.
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The Creative Cosmos of June Wayne
A new exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art features the wide-ranging work of June Wayne, an artist strongly influenced by the cross-disciplinary thinkers of L.A.
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Meeting of the Minds: Convening Consciousness and Culture at Eso Won Books
In an ever-shifting book selling landscape, creative survival has been crucial to Eso Won's longevity.
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Behind-the-Scenes of the Huntington Library Main Exhibition Hall's Renovation
The Huntington's Main Exhibition Hall re-opened recently to the public after its 17-month, $2.5 million renovation.
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Walking East of West L.A.: The Photography of Kevin McCollister
Photographer Kevin McCollister captures the beauty of L.A.'s lonelier, hidden contours.
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