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LAist has a new community colleges reporter. Julia Barajas will now be covering issues facing Californians as they launch their higher education journeys or kick off new careers.If you’re a community college student or staff member at a campus in Greater L.A., she wants to hear from you."My goal is to make sure students have the information they need to thrive.
The Getty unveiled this month the final product of an eight-year effort to digitize a massive, centuries-old encyclopedia of central Mexican indigenous culture. That process has already started changing lives. “I never seen any manuscripts and the Florentine Codex was the first manuscript or codex that I had seen,” she said.
Until last week, there was no one place online that made available the entire Florentine Codex, transcriptions of the hard to read handwriting, and annotation of the illustrations.. Known for their mastery of woodwinds, electronics and agile vocals, Coy mines inspiration from ancient texts, stories, and musical traditions, guiding audiences through splendid architectures of ancestral memory.
Scholars believe 22 people of indigenous descent wrote and painted the Codex. These people were known as tlacuilos, or scribes., researchers, the digitizing team, as well as scholars, and indigenous language and culture experts from Mexico described previous digitized versions of the Codex, translations of the texts, and reproductions of the images.
It’s also developing recommendations for how to use the Codex in classrooms, and offering workshops for teachers and professors. Ofrendas also have candles and marigolds to light the way to the living. But first, this ofrenda was honored with a blessing and dance. Angel Elizalde is a program coordinator for Latino Equality Alliance and a member of a dancing group based in South Los Angeles,“I'd like to say a special prayer for everyone who we've lost due to violence, homophobia, transphobia,” Elizalde told the crowd, “and those who lost their lives crossing the border looking for a better future.
“I feel like it's really important to have spaces like these because a lot of us may not have any communication with our family due to our identity,” Rosas said. “I feel like a lot of times — well, at least in my own personal experience — I've had to grieve alone a lot.”Among the groups tabling was the Southern California chapter of Free Mom Hugs, an organization that was started by an Oklahoma City mom who struggled to accept her son until she decided to make a change.
And for anyone who may be honoring Día de los Muertos for the first time, Kevin Al Perez has some advice: “We are reminding and encouraging all Californians to be aware of the signs and symptoms of mpox and to take preventive measures, including vaccination, to protect against severe illness,” California Department of Public Health Director Dr. Tomás J. Aragón said in a statement.
That funding comes on top of a previous $10 million the council approved in June and another $2 million earlier this month. It would go to the work of Kevin Singer, the person the city requested a judge put in charge of the trust’s buildings in June as a court-appointed receiver. Just a few months earlier, in April, Adams was appointed by the court to manage the properties at the request of L.A. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, who praised him at the time as the most experienced person for the job.
“That kind of error visited upon people who are incredibly vulnerable — who have no place to turn, and who show up at their door and are faced with a three-day notice to quit or pay rent — is completely unacceptable,” Feldstein Soto told city councilmembers at the time.
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