“Venice Blank and Brown” 

 
This storytelling piece begins in 1971 in Venice , California where there was still a thriving Chicano and Black community, before the onset of gentrification and gang violence.

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Lindsey Haley is community activist, published poet, writer, journalist, playwright and performance artist.  Her work has been published in several publications and anthologies, including the LA Weekly, La Opinion, Venice Magazine, Lowrider Magazine, Public Art Review, Frameworks and the Eastside Journal/Belvedere Citizen, Saber Es Poder and Urban Latino Cultures; La Vida Latina en L.A.  She was also featured on KABC’s television magazine show, Vista L.A.  Her community activism began when she lived in Venice , CA , when at the age of eleven she began registering voters.  Her formal education ended at the age of fourteen when she ran away to Fresno , CA with the father of her two children, making her living as a farm worker.  Upon her return to Venice ten years later, she became a community activist working in the areas of politics, education, gang intervention, health, housing and the arts as they related to the Latino community.    

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