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Playwrights’ Center announces 2017-18 Jerome and Many Voices Fellows

Exavier is a playwright and educator hailing from Brooklyn. She creates performances, public programs, and games that invite audiences to participate in a theater that rejects passive reception. Her work has been presented at California State University: Northridge, West Chicago City Museum, and in New York: Bowery Poetry Club, Dixon Place, Independent Curators International, and more. Her writing appears in The Atlas Review, Cunjuh Magazine, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Diane is a three-time recipient of the Roland Wood Fellowship for Theater Studies from Amherst College. M.F.A.: Writing for Performance, Brown University. -- Asian American Press

A Banned Israeli Romance, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend

And in Los Angeles, enjoy Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches” at California State University, Northridge. And if you’re feeling nostalgic for the film, TV, and theater of decades past, head to “I’m Not Famous: A Musical Journey With Barbara Minkus” at the Santa Monica Playhouse. -- Jewish Daily Forward

Craig to play in international competition

Craig was awarded the 2011 International Clarinet Association competition for her publication and honoree nomination of “Dr. David Etheridge: Educator, Performer and Author” with publication featured in the professional journal of music, The International Clarinet. This award was presented at the International Clarinet Association Conference at California State University-Northridge. -- The Crowley Courier Traveler - KS

FROM LOS ANGELES TO FERGUSON: 25 YEARS AFTER RODNEY KING RIOTS, ‘THERE'S A SOUTH CENTRAL IN EVERY CITY AND EVERY STATE’

Josh Sides, a professor at California State University at Northridge who wrote L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present, estimates that South Central is now about 75 percent Latino. Though he cautions against the misconception that 04/29/92 drove blacks out of South Central, he acknowledges that “the riots definitely accelerated that.” -- Newsweek

How A Radio Station Became Koreatown's Lifeline During The '92 Unrest

According to Taehyun Kim, a professor of journalism at Cal State Northridge, at times the station acted as a literal walkie talkie. "People would call to make sure their store is OK. Since there was no way to get there because of a curfew," Kim told LAist. "So someone would call to ask about a place. And, if someone nearby listens to the radio program, they would call to tell you 'No, Johnny's swap meet has basically burned down completely to the ground, sorry.' And the [original] caller would say 'Oh my god, I don't know what to do tomorrow.'" Kim says this back-and-forth was also used to mobilize emergency efforts. "A caller would say, 'Here's a shoe store burning down at such and such. Let's go help put out the fire. We need volunteers.'" -- LAist

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