BONUS CONTENT THIS MONTH:
1. UP NOW: An extended interview with Stephen Pimpare on the way Hollywood portrays poverty.
2. UP NOW: Audio version of our interview with Thomas Frank.
3. COMING: A short documentary of Lenneal Henderson's time at the 1968 Poor People's Campaign demonstration.
A note from the editors,
A few months ago we uncovered a series of digitized and newly restored film from The Poor People’s Campaign in 1968. Seeing the revived material in motion and color remind us it wasn’t that long ago. Photographer Jill Freedman on Resurrection City:
Of course, it was old stuff from the start. Another nonviolent demonstration. Another march on Washington. Another army camping, calling on a government that acts like the telephone company.
Even poverty is ancient history. Always have been poor people, still are, always will be.
Because governments are run by ambitious men of no imagination. Whose priorities are so twisted that they burn food while people starve. And we let them.
And no news is new.
February looks at anti-poverty movements in the United States.
-frank
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Homelessness in Los Angeles: A Reading List
by franknews
January 20, 2021
READ: Evicted by Matthew Desmond.
READ: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein.
LISTEN: Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Pod
READ: An LA TIMES Archives photo series of an effort in 1987 effort to supply short-term housing residents of sidewalk encampments on Skid Row.
SCROLL: An instagram account documenting gentrification and resilience along the East Hollywood/Silver Lake border.
READ: Nithya Ramam’s platform for the housing and homelessness crises.