In just a few short months, Downtown Crenshaw organizers have galvanized a diverse set of Crenshaw community leaders, Black Los Angeles stakeholders, local allies and supporters from across the globe. We are pleased to be building a broad-based and radically-inclusive effort of over 300 organizations of homeowners, renters, houseless, merchants, property owners, neighborhood associations, faith-based institutions, civil rights organizations, business leaders, civic leaders, scholar-activists, artists, and affinity groups. (Sign the petition and volunteer to join the movement).
Supporters Include (partial list):
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment-Los Angeles (ACCE-Los Angeles)
CDTech
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development
Concerned Community Members for Chesapeake Apartments
End Homelessness Now-LA
Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment
Liberty Community Land Trust
Lincoln Heights Against Gentrification
Long Beach Residents Empowered (LiBRE)
Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN)
Los Angeles Housing Compliance
Los Angeles Tenants Union Baldwin Leimert Crenshaw Local
Oakland Community Land Trust
People Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER)
Progressive Asian Network for Action
Sunrise Movement OC
Venice Community Housing
Westside Los Angeles Tenants Union
ADOS-Los Angeles
ADOS-Southern California
AFIBA Center
African American Cultural Center (Us)
African American Cultural Center Long Beach (AACCLB)
AfricaTown Coalition
Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles
Black Community Clergy and Labor Alliance
Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles
Brothers, Sisters, Selves Coalition
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)
Coalition of 100 Black Women Los Angeles Chapter
Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People-West (CEMOTAP-West)
Committee for Racial Justice
Congress of Racial Equality-California
Creating Justice LA
Crenshaw Subway Coalition
Decolonize This Place
Food and Water Watch & Food and Water Action
Humanity First Coalition
Jazzalyn Livingston, NAACP National Programs Officer
JusticeLA
Kwanzaa People of Color
Labor/Community Strategy Center
Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
NAACP Los Angeles
NAACP San Fernando Valley
National Action Network-Los Angeles
National Association for Equal Justice in America
National Coalition of 100 Black Women Los Angeles Chapter
National Council of Negro Women Southern California Area Chapter
Dr. Ron Daniels, Executive Director, Institute of the Black World 21st Century
SEIU Local 99 African American Caucus
SEIU Local 721 African American Caucus
Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Southern California
Students Deserve Los Angeles
UCLA Beloved Community Initiative
Union del Barrio
White People 4 Black Lives
Youth Justice Coalition
AFSCME 3299
Alice Goff, Retired President, AFSCME 36
SEIU 721
USW Local 675
Michael Peck, 1 worker 1 vote
American Sustainable Business Council
Gilda Haas, L.A. Co-Op Lab
Los Angeles Union Cooperative Initiative
Michael Kramer, Managing Partner, Natural Investments, LLC
Resource Generation Los Angeles
Social Venture Circle
Akosua Hobert, Senior Minister, First Woman's Church of LA
Baptist Ministers Conference of Los Angeles and Southern California
Clergy for Black Lives
Pastor Cue JnMarie, Church without Walls (Skid Row)
Rev. Donald L. Wilson
Pastor Eddie Anderson, McCarthy Memorial Christian Church
Rev. Erica Byrd, KRST Unity
Holy Name of Jesus Church Knights of Peter Claver Council 121
Rev. James Thomas, Living Word Community Church
Pastor KW Tulloss, Weller Street Baptist Church
Pastor Meredith Miller, Pomona Valley Church
Morningside Congregational Church, UCC
Rev. Najuma Smith-Pollard, USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement
St. Peter Claver Foundation
Rev. William D. Smart, Jr., Pastor, Christ Liberation Ministries
Artist Among Us Talent Agency
Ayuko Babu, Founder, Pan African Film Festival
Brandi Kane, Artist
Dr. Adrian Dove, Ph.D., Kingdom Day Parade
Lauren Halsey, Artist
Rahkua, Artist
Six Sev, Artist
Dr. Melina Abdullah, Ph.D, Professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles
Dr. Jody Armour, Author & Professor, University of Southern California School of Law
Dr. Maulana Karenga, Ph.D, Professor & Chair of Africana Studies at Cal State University Long Beach & Creator of Kwanzaa
Dr. W. Gabriel Selassie I, Professor, Los Angeles City College
Dr. Chris Tilly, Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Urban Planning
Anna Tutt, 2nd Vice President, Consolidated Board of Realtist
Bee Hall, Pan-African Community Development Corporation
Buy Back the Block Los Angeles
Leimert Park Investment Group
Lucas Renaissance Group
Dr. Ronald Galvin, Vice President for Racial Equity and the Democratic Economy of The Democracy Collaborative
Sandra McNeil, Former Executive Director, TRUST South LA
Seed Commons/The Working World
Ted Brass Real Estate Solutions
Ade Nuff, Ride On Bike Co-Op & Past President of the Leimert Park Village Merchants Association
Anastasia Clemons, Co-Founder, Lucas Renaissance Group
Clare Kelly, CEO, Hesse Press
Conaxion, Inc.
Christiane Eubanks, Co-Owner, Who's Hungry Caribbean & Catering
Dawn Modkins, Diaspora Beauty Supply and Salon
Daniel Desure, Owner, Commonwealth Projects
Danielle's Soul Kitchen
Dianne Lawrence, Editor, The Neighborhood News
Eric Walker, Walk.Empowered
Dr. Kathye Jenkins, Founder/President, Cynthia Perry Ray Foundation
Gina Viola, CEO, Trade Show Temps
Hank's Mini Market
Jackie Ryan, Past President of Leimert Park Village Merchants Association
Jennifer Alvarez, Worker-Owner, The Tree Yoga Cooperative
Leimert Park Village Merchants Association
Linda Morgan Sam, Living Legends Foundation
Los Angeles South Chamber of Commerce
Love Tafari, Owner, Love Tafari Realtor
Marva Smith, Owner, Marva Smith Consulting
Michelle Johnson, CEO, The Chocolate Barista
Mobile Science Labs
Mohawk General Store
Moonwater Farm
Mo Juice
Olympia Auset, Owner, SÜPMARKT
Page Bryant, CEO, Page Bryant Production
Patricia Diggs, Executive Director, Operation Backlot
Philip Bucknor, Founder/CEO, FORTHEFUTURE
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of Los Angeles
Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation
Robin Cole, Past Board Member, Park Mesa Heights Community Council
Dr. Rosie Milligan, Author, Business Owner & Self-Appointed Mayor of South Central
Seth Gottesdiener, CEO, Indigo Fitness
Skid Row People's Market
SoLA Food Co-Op
South LA Cafe
South Los Angeles Bureau of Tourism & Trade
TEC Leimert
Toss It Up Salad
Troya Ellis, CEO, Trajectory of Hope
Mable Wilson, Owner, Wilson's Divorce Clinic
YUTE Juice LLC
We Love Leimert
59th Place Block Club
Akili, Director, Fannie Lou Hamer Institute
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc Beta Psi Lambda Chapter
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Upsilon Chi Chapter
Andrea Canty, Past President of North Area Neighborhood Development Council
Black American Political Association of California-Los Angeles
Clint Simmons, P.E., Commissioner, Los Angeles Aviation Commission
Connye Thomas, Chair, Community Action Mobilization Team
Converging Storms Action Network
Dominique Bell, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Long Beach
Black American Political Association of California-Los Angeles (BAPAC-LA)
Black Skeptics
Carolyn Fowler, California Senior Legislature
Clean Up South Central
The Honorable Daniel Lee, Culver City City Councilmember
Danielle Lafayette, Founder/Executive Director, Unite A Nation
Dwayne Wyatt, Los Angeles City Planner (Ret.)
Grace Yoo, Co-Founder, Environmental Justice Collaborative
Ground Game LA
The Honorable Isadore Hall, III, California State Senate (Ret.)
Jacquelynn Hawthorne, Board Member of Los Angeles African American Women Political Action Committee
Jon Lafferty, CEO, Latebloom Entertainment
Kenneth Collins, Sr., President/CEO of Kebeco Construction Services Inc.
Kevin Harbour, Sr., Past President of UCLA Black Alumni Association
Lance Collins, AIA, NOMA, President of Southern California Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (SoCalNOMA)
Linda Ricks, Past Chair of Community Redevelopment Agency-Los Angeles Crenshaw Community Advisory Council
Mac Shorty, Founder, Community RePower Movement
Make Crenshaw Great Again
Dr. Michael Batie, Ph.D., President of Los Angeles Council of Black Professional Engineers
Michael Guynn, President of Association of Black Social Workers-Greater Los Angeles
National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ)
National Association of University Women
New Frontier Democratic Club
NOlympics LA
Park Mesa Heights Community Council
Patrick McCullough, Expo Neighbors Association
Places In The City
Project Africa-Los Angeles
Queen Sho King, Moor Enterprises
The Honorable Robert Farrell, Los Angeles City Councilmember-8th District (Ret.)
Serge Hall, Board Member of Mid-City Neighborhood Council
Sikivu Hutchinson, Noted Author & Activist
Tanya Walters, Founder/CEO of GodParents Youth Organization
Tim Watkins, President/CEO of Watts Labor Community Action Committee
Torrence Brannon-Reese, Founding Director of FAMLI, Inc.
West Adams Neighborhood Council
West LA Democratic Club
Women's Leadership Project