Central American Resource Center
Interim Director of CARECEN, the Central American Resource Center, which is located in Pico Union/Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles
PROFILE
Martha Arevalo
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FROM Martha Arevalo
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
200,000 Salvadorans at risk of deportation About 200,000 Salvadorans may have to leave the U.S. next year. That’s because the Trump administration announced Monday that its ending Temporary Protected Status for them. The protections, which had allowed Salvadorans to live in the US after earthquakes devastated El Salvador in 2001, will expire in September 2019. In Los Angeles, there are 30,000 Salvadorans with Temporary Protected Status.
Which Way, L.A.?
Who Is LA, Twenty Years after the Riots? In this second in a week of special programs, we consider how the Rodney King riot of 1992 shaped the city we know today. We start at what's often called the epicenter of the civil disturbance, the place where Reginald Denny was pulled out of his truck and brutally beaten, while millions watched on TV. A white man, he was beaten by black rioters. It's important to point out that it was also black people who rescued Denny and saved his life. What is it like there today? How did America's worst civil disturbance of the 20th Century shape our perceptions about the most diverse metropolitan center in the United States, perhaps in the world? (L-R) Kyeyoung Park, Manuel Pastor and Martha Arevalo in the KCRW Studios Special thanks to the Public Insight Network for helping us connect with the community.
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