Crenshaw Mall for Wall Street Journal

Crenshaw Plaza Mall has been one of the few Black-owned malls in America in the predominantly Black Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles, but the mall and surrounding land are now up for grabs as various community groups and corporate entities vie for ownership of the coveted property. I spent time with Downtown CrenshawRising, a community nonprofit working to purchase and redevelop the mall themselves, and with a few of the Black-owned businesses in and around the mall for Wall Street Journal.