J.T. The L.A. Storyteller JIMBO TIMES

In our 41st episode, we welcome poet, singer and educator Gina Loring to our podcast to talk about an article of her’s at The Root, “The Wounded Explaining the Wound,” which describes a hate speech incident Gina encountered while in a graduate studies program at the USC Rossier School of Education. According to the RossierContinue reading EPISODE 41 – USC STERILIZATION IS NO SMALL MATTER →

In our 40th episode–the final for 2020–Sal Roses returns to our podcast, this time to chat about his experience as a supervisor for L.A. City Sanitation services, the city body which has overseen clean-ups of unhoused encampments on L.A.’s sidewalks and beneath L.A.’s freeway underpasses. Sal and I have a heart-felt talk about these clean-upsContinue reading EPISODE 40 – SANITATION IN L.A. WITH SAL ROSES →

In our 39th episode, we chat with Brett Shears, the founder of Vote Allies, an advocacy organization working to grant voting rights to historically disenfranchised communities, and a recent staffer for the successful Prop 17 campaign during this year’s elections. Brett and I have an extensive conversation on L.A.’s Neighborhood Council (NC) system, which isContinue reading EPISODE 39 – TO JOIN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL, OR NOT →

In our 38th episode, we chat with Dr. Kenya Mitchell, a Black writer, professor, and lead editor for the new Mother Mortality Project: an anthology of stories by Black, Brown and Indigenous women documenting discrimination in their pregnancies at the hands of the American health-care system. Dr. Mitchell and I discuss parenting in the timeContinue reading EPISODE 38 – DR. KENYA MITCHELL, PART I →

Listen to audio of an activist describing the recently attempted eviction at the College Hotel on Santa Monica boulevard in East Hollywood, a part of L.A. City Council Member Mitch O’Farrell’s district. J.T.

In our 37th episode, we chat with Alissa Walker, one of the co-hosts of the LA PODCAST, as well as editor of Curbed L.A. I ask Alissa just one miscellaneous question, followed by seven questions “in a pack.” We unfurl the pack and discuss for listeners, including about pedestrianism in L.A., the infamous Target HuskContinue reading EPISODE 37 – ALISSA WALKER, CURBED L.A. →