Bordering some of Los Angeles’ historic Black neighborhoods, there’s plenty to eat, see and do along Crenshaw Boulevard.
. The maze-like Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, where a cozy dessert shop and stylish restaurant hide behind multilevel parking garages. The 780-foot-long “Great Wall of Crenshaw” mural that depicts key points and figures throughout Black history.
“We have a high concentration of Black residents and businesses right along the boulevard,” says Jason Foster, president and chief operating officer of. “We have cultural references from music to movies, and people who are actually driving the culture, like Issa Rae and Ava DuVernay, who got their grounding right here on Crenshaw.”and the creation of the Metro K line that runs at-grade from West Vernon Avenue in Leimert Park to Slauson Avenue in Hyde Park.
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