Children’s Institute (CII) in Los Angeles has opened a new 20,000-square- foot campus designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry in summer 2022, providing the 116- year-old non-profit organization with its first ever purpose-built home in the community of Watts.
One of the last remaining Negro League ballparks was nearly lost to history. But professional baseball has now returned to the fabled stadium, which stands as a monument to generations of Black players once consigned to the periphery of our national pastime.