JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Jackson police are investigating after a body was found Thursday afternoon. Officers responded to a call about a shooting in the 1200 block of West Ridgeway Street just before 3:30 p.m. on December 28. Police said the victim, Willie Ford, Jr., had been shot multiple times and died at the scene. [.]
Compton-raised writers Robin Coste Lewis (former Los Angeles poet laureate), Amaud Jamaul Johnson (poet, professor and National Book Critics Circle finalist) and Jenise Miller (a poet and urban planner of Panamanian descent) discuss a Compton beyond the popular imagination.
In the 1960s and 70s, young, Black middle-class families flocked to Compton for the opportunity to live in a progressive, Black space created by Black businesses and civic and political engagement.
In Compton, a School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/t-magazine/compton-communicative-arts-academy.html
In Compton, a School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists
Between 1969 and 1975, the Communicative Arts Academy was a vital hub for a community largely excluded from Los Angeles’s cultural institutions.
A student at the Communicative Arts Academy in Compton, Calif., where the syllabus was designed to instill in participants a sense of Black pride.Credit.Courtesy of Willie Ford Jr. and the Compton Communicative Arts Academy Collection, Special Collections and Archives, John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, California State University, Los Angeles