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“When the Moon Is Up”

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When the Moon Is Up

By Students of Alain Leroy Locke High School
Foreword by Héctor Tobar

Available for Purchase

When the Moon Is Up is a book filled with the collective stories of young people in South LA. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1992 LA Uprisings and the fiftieth anniversary of Alain LeRoy Locke High School’s founding, this book is about their lives in and journeys to LA, reflecting the city’s many cultures and dimensions. On these pages, sixty-one students from Locke High School depict the modern lives of youth in stories full of responsibility, family, loss, courage, and favorite pairs of sneakers. These stories fill in any gaps in knowledge and change misconceptions about their neighborhoods, their countries, and this Los Angeles we call home.

Featuring a lesson plan from Facing History and Ourselves on facilitating difficult classroom conversations. Including student interviews with community leaders Victoria Brown, Sam Joo, Katherine Kim, Rose Salseda, and Aqeela Sherrills

Click Here for Photos of the Project

[/ezcol_1half_end] In your book, you have tackled one of the biggest events this big city has ever seen. The days in 1992 when the city burned and seethed, and the aftermath of those events. I lived through that “uprising,” that “riot,” or as the Spanish-speakers of the day called it, “los quemazones,” the great burning. I dreamed then of a kinder, more just city—a place where young people believed that words and ideas could be as powerful as rocks, gunfire, and flames. Now that day has arrived.
— From the foreword by Héctor Tobar, author and journalist

“A quarter century after the events that formed a global snapshot of Los Angeles, this book and the stories within are defined by these students, who are the present and the future of this city in the world’s imagination. May we step up to support them and ensure their success as they reach for the future for which we all hope.”
From the Editors’ Note 


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Quoted The New York Times

Read “South L.A. Revisited, 25 Years After the Rodney King Riots” here.

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“The answer I had to offer students like her was that they should have faith in their own abilities to transform Los Angeles and the United States into better places to live. And they had already started.

With the help of 826LA, a nonprofit group focusing on youth literacy, Locke students had just written a book about the legacy of the 1992 riots, an event that unfolded before they were born. They interviewed black, Latino and Korean-American residents about that experience, and offered their own descriptions of daily life in one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods.” Héctor Tobar

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Click Here for a Selection of Excerpts from the Book


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Go Inside the Release Party

“I had it in my mind – all the memories, but I never expected that I could share all this history with all of you. And that is amazing. It makes me feel so happy.”

61 students became published authors with the release of When the Moon Is Up at Locke High School.

Applauded by family, friends, teachers, volunteers, fellow peers, students shared their pieces and celebrated their hard work.

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Learn more about When the Moon Is Up:

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An interview with the teachers of Locke High School

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Héctor Tobar Q & A

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Exploring History & Community:
Inside the Project

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Selections from When the Moon is Up:
“Finding Peace: An Interview with Aqeela Sherrills”

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Selections from When the Moon is Up:
“Life Gives Us Lessons to Recognize Our Mistakes”

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More photos of the Young
Authors’ Book Project

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To purchase the book, click here, or pick up a copy in store at the Time Travel Mart in May. 

Photos Courtesy of Alex Rapada Photography.

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