Lost Angeles: Beyond the Glitz and Glam

Blocks away from Pershing Square are the Toy and Fashion Districts of Los Angeles, some of the pioneering industries that helped propel L.A. It is also home to L.A.’s infamous Skid Row, the pioneering frontier of forgotten wastelands and memories. Hundreds of the homeless line the streets of San Julian, San Pedro, 7th, 6th and 5th streets like an army of lost angels unbeknownst of their fall from grace.

Fashion show features hip hop artist

The Black Student Alliance hosted a night acknowledging liberation through education and culture as fashion, hip-hop, and Talib Kweli etched the message into the many minds at CEC on Saturday night.Kweli, renowned in hip-hop circles for his heedful and socially conscious rhymes put down the microphone usually reserved for spit swaddled mad flows and instead engaged the audience in a Q & A session.