The Oakwood area of Los Angeles’s coastal resort is changing fast on the back of the Silicon Valley boom and a gang injunction some say amounts to harassmentAfrican Americans helped to build Venice a century ago,gifting Los Angeles a coastal resort, but were banned from owning homes along the boardwalk and canals, or which were reserved for white folk.
Instead a one-square-mile cluster of streets a mile inland,absent from tourist view, was set aside for black residents. It was called Oakwood and became a tight-knit community with vibrant street life, and neighbours saluting each other from porches.
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Source: theguardian.com