MID-CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- West of downtown Los Angeles sits a small village that seems supernaturally set apart from the city noise. St. Elmo Village is a hidden treasure named after the ...

*Los Angeles – St. Elmo Village celebrated it’s 50 th Anniversary with an awesome two-day family friendly festival, Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26, 2019. St. Elmo Village is ...

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Roderick Sykes at work on one of his murals in an undated photo. Sykes, the co-founder of St. Elmo Village, died at 75. (Jacqueline Alexander-Sykes) St. Elmo Village co-founder Roderick Sykes, whose ...

You could pass it every day and never know its legacy –- a modest, pale-pink house on a quiet, tree-lined block in Leimerk Park. For decades, it was home to Tom and Ethel Bradley – the city’s first ...

St. Elmo Village co-founder Roderick Sykes, whose Mid-City Black art enclave and community center nurtured generations of creative minds and served as a gathering place for the founders of the Black ...