Los Angeles Times

Black-led nonprofit to take over Skid Row People's Market, a longtime community hub

LOS ANGELES -- On another busy day at the Skid Row People's Market in downtown Los Angeles, workers stocked shelves while shoppers purchased sandwiches, fresh produce and fruit. The store at 5th and San Pedro streets, kitty-corner from a wellness center and across from a women's shelter, is a vital asset for this impoverished, Black and Latino neighborhood. Danny Park, 39, who took over the ...
Danny Park decided to sell his family’ s Skid Row People’ s Market to Creating Justice LA to keep ownership in the community, address food insecurity and maintain and provide community jobs.

LOS ANGELES -- On another busy day at the Skid Row People's Market in downtown Los Angeles, workers stocked shelves while shoppers purchased sandwiches, fresh produce and fruit.

The store at 5th and San Pedro streets, kitty-corner from a wellness center and across from a women's shelter, is a vital asset for this impoverished, Black and Latino neighborhood.

Danny Park, 39, who took over the business from his Korean immigrant parents in 2015, weaved social justice into its fabric by providing healthy and affordable food, giving store credit to customers low on cash and helping the unhoused population — the largest in any part of the city.

"I know it's

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times7 min read
Indie Creatures To The Core, David And Nathan Zellner Cut Their Own Path Through The Wild
A family makes their way through a woodland forest, eventually stopping to set up camp. They have something to eat, go to sleep and then get up to do it all over again. Except this isn't a family on a wilderness getaway. It's a group of shaggy, mythi
Los Angeles Times7 min read
In Ukraine's Old Imperial City, Pastel Palaces Are In Jeopardy, But Black Humor Survives
ODESA, Ukraine — On a cool spring morning, as water-washed light bathed pastel palaces in the old imperial city of Odesa, the thunder of yet another Russian missile strike filled the air. That March 6 blast came within a few hundred yards of a convoy
Los Angeles Times2 min read
Kendrick Lamar Responds To Drake In New Diss Track 'Euphoria'
LOS ANGELES — Kendrick Lamar is having his say. Again. A week and a half after Drake dropped two songs in which he insulted the Compton-born rapper — diss tracks Drake released after Lamar attacked him last month in the song "Like That" — Lamar retur

Related