Los Angeles from the history of past generations you know grandpa used to go up to the gate every time we passed the gate and he would spit on the floor and he would give them the bird to an interview with actor Carlos Gomez who stars in a new Law and Order show about the Menendez murders a case that rocked Los Angeles back in the 1990 s. I don't judge the people that I play you know but as an actor you always have to find some kind of humanity or something to do to relate the reality of the situation and that's what I played it was a fact that he was probably abused as a child all this and more coming up on Latino USA I might. Stay with us. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jim hike $26.00 people are dead and 20 more are wounded after a man opened fire at a church in the small town southeast of San Antonio N.P.R.'s Wade Goodwyn reports according to the Texas Department of Public Safety a little after 11 am local time a man in his twenty's wearing black tactical clothes and a ballistic vest exited his vehicle and opened fire at the facade of the 1st Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs eventually the shooter carrying a Ruger a.r. Assault style rifle entered the church and began to murder those inside among the dead is the 14 year old daughter of the church's pastor as well as other children the shooter fled the scene was later found dead in his vehicle after crashing he'd been shot by whom is still unknown Wade Goodwyn n.p.r. News President Trump 2nd day in Japan was overshadowed by the developments in Texas Trump telling reporters I will continue to follow the developments closely. Well all of them is praying to God to help the wounded and the families of the victims Trump also addressed business leaders ahead of a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo how may trump calls the u.s. Trade imbalance with Japan quote unfair and urged Japanese business leaders to bring more manufacturing to the u.s. Troops next stop is in South Korea House speaker Paul Ryan says Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation into Russia's election interference must proceed as planned and as N.P.R.'s Collins wire reports the comments come at a crucial moment for the probe do lawmakers in Washington have any plans to stop or hinder Robert Motors investigation Paul Ryan told Fox News Sunday that answer is clear we're not going to interfere with this investigation the investigation will take its course and we will let it take its course on Friday just days after Robert Miller's team revealed its 1st indictments several members of Ryan's own Republican caucus reportedly called Moeller unfit to lead the probe but neither Ryan nor the White House have said they intend to stop the investigation into Russian interference we need to find out exactly what they did to our country how and why they did it and then how do we prevent them from doing in the future and to do that Ryan said the professionals at the Justice Department must be able to just do their jobs and wire n.p.r. News a day after the governor called for it Kentucky's Republican House speaker resigned his leadership position Sunday after acknowledging he settled sexual harassment claims from one of his staffers last month Jeff Hoover denied sexually harassing the staff member but said he sent inappropriate text messages that were consensual while resigning as speaker Hoover says he will remain in the legislature Hoover had been speaker since January shortly after Republicans won a majority in the Kentucky State House for the 1st time in nearly a century. This is n.p.r. News. A senior advisor for Rand Paul says the u.s. Senator is recovering from 5 broken ribs following an assault at his home the spokesman says it's unclear when Paul will return to work since he's in considerable pain and has difficulty getting around but he's arrested Senator Paul's next door neighbor 59 year old Rene Bushay on a misdemeanor charge of 4th degree assault a New York City Marathon went off without a hitch Sunday N.P.R.'s Maggie penman reports on the 1st American to win the women's event in 40 years Shalane Flanagan ran her 1st New York City Marathon in 2010 coming in 2nd she was kept out of the Boston marathon by knee injury speaking after the race on Sunday a tearful Flanagan said it took her 7 years to get here but these are the moments that we dream of as our plates and this is going to feel good for really long time the last American woman to win the race was Mickey Corman in 1977 who set records at a time before the women's marathon was part of the Olympic Games that event was introduced in Los Angeles in 1904 Flanagan finished 6th in the marathon at the real lympics She also has an Olympic silver medal in the 10000 meter race and holds records in other events the runner says she hopes her victory inspires the next generation of American women Maggie penman n.p.r. News at the weekend box office Marvel's 3rd story movie store Ragnor rock funder to one of the year's best movie debuts with an estimated 100 $21000000.00 in ticket sales a bad moms Christmas was 2nd followed by jigsaw Tyler Perry's boo 2 and Geo storm I'm Jim Hark n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the William in Florida foundation committed to supporting ideas and institutions to advance education for all preserve the environment and promote vibrant performing arts more information is available at Hewlett dot org. Welcome to Latino USA I might be a new horse. Barbara was a young artist just 26 years old when a Los Angeles city agency commissioned her to create a mural her Miro would be about what Los Angeles meant to her so I jumped at that opportunity because before that I was always assisting other mostly male artists on their mirror also. So Barbara sentence sketches which were approved and then she started painting the 20 foot tall you're depicted an indigenous woman with long flowing black hair and woven throughout her here were 50 small scenes that together made up a chronological history of Los Angeles there was left that church on our bed our street orange groves in the portrait of an infamous California band and then there's the Hollywood sign the 1932 all of that poster and as Barbara was getting close to finishing the mural the architect asked her to come in for a meeting and then they had the sketch on a wall. And some images were outlined in purple some in red I think the purple were like asking me to reduce those images in the red world why don't I just take them out because you know they didn't think they were necessary one of the scenes marked in purple and red was an image that represented the Chinese massacre of 871 another one was from the 1943 riots I stood my ground and said no this is I think it works out really well the way it is and I don't I'm not one to change it and so they said . Well we're not one to talk to anymore and so the project was cancelled our. Barbara finished the mural only to take it down panel by panel and put it all into storage until she feels like she did the right thing they should not ask the artist to take or change anything in the mural the mural did see the law. Day for a like a 2nd when it was displayed once in Los Angeles for 3 weeks back in the early 1990 s. But then it went right back into storage until now. To introduce you are just you made up at 1. 100. 36 years after young Barbara was asked to paint something that represented all of l.a. Her mural was finally out last month but censored in Union Station in downtown Los Angeles for the world to see it was part of a huge part showcase called Pacific Standard Time l.a. L.a. Which explores the Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with the city of Los Angeles so those images that were once outlined in purple and red images that were deemed too controversial like the Japanese internment scene that mans that are there now this is a book. And just like Barbara's near all our show today is going to dig into some of Ellie's history including parts that some might rather not talk about from the displacement of Latino families half a century ago to a murder case that shook the city and we're going to start with something that's making quite a lot of headlines right now which is the Dodgers the l.a. Dodgers just lost the World Series the closest they've come to winning since the 1980 s. And for some deeper history about the Dodgers Here's Latino USA is Genesee Mocha Hey Janice so I have a story and it's about baseball. Where thing I know very little about Ok I was going to ask of they go fan you are but you just answered. A teeny tiny bit but I I love watching the fans so have you been to a game. I would have been to 2 games one. I was like 9 in Chicago and then one like 10 years ago at Yankee Stadium well as an engine Lino I've been to Dodger Stadium it's up on a Helen surrounded by palm trees it has a ton of parking lot and it has one of the best views of downtown l.a. And the Dodgers have a ton of Latino fans especially Mexican fans and a lot of it had to do it for man to me and I know my thank you maybe one was shot. To one on the balance while the superstar rookie he was a kid from Mexico Sonora Mexico and he led the Los Angeles Dodgers to the World Series in 1981 Fernando mania was super intense and the legend of Fernando becomes known to all the world. Like I said came during the Fernando mania that he. Emigrated from Mexico in the early seventy's and really embraced Fernando mania and he wanted to share this moment with their son so he gave the Center for Nando violence while a Dodgers jacket on his 9th birthday and front of the whole family including isn't this grandfather my grandpa nearly flipped out he just goes really and he walked out of the room I think he knew he was going to blow up to that point. Because Dodgers jacket exactly and he said this dad was totally shocked and it was just a Dodgers jacket. And his grandfather did something radical my dad was never. Back into their home. Because he gave them a Dodgers jacket so he sent them who was 9 years old at the time he was super confused and he didn't really understand why his grandfather reacted that way most of his life until his early twenty's when he finally understood one day as grandmother the love pulled him aside and laid out this entire family history that we sent they had no idea about you could see her face that what she was about to tell me was something that was it was it had sat in her mind for a long time and when she told us about the community I mean you could see them. Like in their face you can see them get so emotional What does he mean like the community who's he talking about here my grandfather is John there now over and he grew up in the community of a letter that his wife is a bell of the novel and she grew up and bought a little bit too and then they both met there but I love that it is one of 3 neighborhoods that made up a predominantly Mexican American community they were part of that of their land all my and and all together they made something bigger something that you may know Madea as Chavez Ravine the child is ravine so it's about a community Ok today the rest of the world may know Chavez Ravine by another name the lucky ones are here today and odd years later you know Dodgers Stadium Jenna's So how about if you take it away and tell us the story of the child his regime so let's talk about it before it was the home of the Dodgers when it was actually home to over a 1000 families because it was a place where he sent his grandparents fell in love and started a family my grandma says you know well this is was the another man and they always used to talk about stories about how the dances that they used to have in the community every weekend it was a lively neighborhood in the thirty's and forty's when he sent his grandparents were growing up so there was almost like a party or a disco night out there where they would go and they would have the band plane and they even had a house of their own they really felt privileged because they had that stepping stone of owning a home over all life was good for them. And Chavez Ravine it was located in the valley and it was a little isolated but overall it was really close to downtown l.a. And even though this was a neighborhood where they threw weddings continued as left their doors unlocked grew their own produce and even raise their own life stock the city had a very different perspective of the Travis ravine neighborhoods that's Eric Ivy law professor Chicano Studies and History at u.c.l.a. He's author of the book popular culture in the ages. White flight and has written extensively about Chavez Ravine as far back as the 1930 s. The City Housing Authority declared the charges of being to be a slum in need of rehabilitation he told me that this was because Chavez Ravine was a low income neighborhood not well served by transit lines and most of the time lacked a basic needs like electricity people used candles to light up their homes and their streets at night so this city in the 1930 s. Targeted the child reserving. The placement of a public housing project. And then President Harry Truman was pushing for something called the Housing Act of 1949 as part of the fair deal which gave better old dollars to build housing projects all across the country but Angela's got $110000000.00 because of the Housing Act they could directly use toward public housing and Chavez Ravine without electricity it's part transit was the perfect site for this and then this would mean the destruction of the old neighborhood and then the construction of new public housing units in which the old residents would have 1st dibs to move in here's how it would work 1st they had to get rid of all the residents 2nd they'd have to tear down all the houses then they'd build the public housing in the own neighbors could come back into their new more modern homes so I don't think that the the Los Angeles Housing Authority sent letters to every home in John's ravine telling them that their houses were going to be torn down and new ones built in their place but not to worry for the many families who qualify for public housing 1st steps on the new channels are being once it was done and about 2 years it sounded like a good deal except that saying no was not an option the city had the power to force them to either sell or get evicted something called eminent domain but eminent domain basically means is that cities have the power to take private property as long as it's for public use like parks or roads after they pay the owner of that property. A fair price but in many cases even today the government tries to lowball property owners offering only a fraction of the properties value and the owners could get a lawyer to try to get a better deal but you need to spend money for that so in many cases even when people don't want to leave they take the deal which is what many dead and their houses were soon demolished by 952 almost all of the residents had moved out on the promise that they would be able to return to the old neighborhood moving into these new public housing projects some families resisted But overall even if it felt shady It seemed like a good deal think about a college campus tall towers lush landscaping modern structures with modern facilities electricity water the works everything that the residents lacked in Chavez Ravine that's what the city told the residents they would get if they sold their homes so slowly residents trickled out of Chavez Ravine. Meanwhile one mile south were changing at city hall the mayor ship of l.a. Was about to change and the new candidate his name was Norris Tolson he was a congressman they had a ton of law connected friends like the Chandler family who owned and operated a little newspaper called Los Angeles Times and they were stanch Lee opposed to the idea of public housing in the immediate vicinity of downtown Los Angeles and there were a few reasons for their opposition one they believe that public housing were not maximize economic value of downtown and another reason was this idea of racial integration in the immediate vicinity of downtown so poles and the man running for mayor made anti public housing the foundation of his campaign and he used the Red Scare to attack it. And the rhetoric that he used public housing was a secret communist strategy to create communist 1000 the heart of downtown that's something that Eric calls red baiting and polls and closely coordinating with the Chandler family the Los Angeles Times and other downtown elites effectively used this red baiting strategy and he promised that if he won the mayoral election that one of the 1st things that he would do in office as mayor would be to cancel the city's bid for public housing and then and one thing 53 Polson won the election and became mayor and he kept his promise one of the 1st acts that he signed as mayor was the cancellation of public housing not just in the Chavez Ravine but in other parts of the city as well so here are hundreds of families who left their homes and now there would be no promise place to live and no Chavez Ravine it's important to note that not every family left the neighborhood with a government buyout of sorts a couple families stayed and they were perfectly happy in their home with their yard and their garden and their livestock and their neighbors and they had no interest in leaving it was basically a ghost town most of it had been destroyed and they were even sat in limbo but once the plans for public housing were gone it made way for something else to be felt something bigger 'd. 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Member stations and from Cancer Treatment Centers of America whose national Hispanic Advisory Council is devoted to educating the Hispanic community about the causes of treatment and prevention of cancer learn more at Cancer Center dot com and the Annie e. Casey Foundation developing solutions to support strong families and communities for America's children to help ensure a brighter future more information is available at a e.c.f. Dot org. Welcome back to Latino USA I'm might be a new horse and today show is all about Los Angeles before the break we were talking about the story of Dodgers Stadium and the land that it's on which is child is revealing now at the time many residents of Chavez Ravine had sold their homes after they were promised public housing but those plans were cancelled by the new mayor and the ravine itself well it's sat in limbo Here's Janice who mocha with the rest of the story. Over on the East Coast Walter O'Malley the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers was unhappy with his location in Brooklyn the stadium was old and the neighborhood was changing and New York City officials weren't helping him Mally wanted out so very quietly 153954955 city officials began working behind the scenes with Walter and Mally to negotiate the possibility of a relocation from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and guess what l.a. City officials suggested the b