A love of learning and an investment in our young people in our city.

And it's just incredibly fun to be out here today and to see our entire community coming in to enjoy this wonderful new space.

In the kids' area, we created a space where kids can come together, sit in designated areas and be able to talk and read along with a lot of the guest speakers that will come to the library and help encourage further reading.

In the teen area, we know that tech is a big thing, so we wanted to make sure that they had the appropriate spaces to be able to charge up their devices as well as to be able to use their laptops in a private area to be able to keep up on their studies and of course have a safe space to be able to work.

Well, reading is a continuous thing.

It starts at home.

And it's the first thing that you need in life in order to grow and to become yourself.

It's a way to educate yourself, uh, gives kids hope at an early age, allows their imagination to flow, and it guides them throughout their life.

So reading uh is everlasting.

I just think it's an amazing thing to revive uh libraries and enhance them and give these kids uh everything that they need before they get into early stages of life at that early age, six, seven, eight years old, give them a space and a place uh to let their minds grow.

So it's it's it's a great project.

One of our messages today is that we're not only a city of champions, thanks to LA Lakers and other teams, but we're also a city of readers.

We have seven million books here at our libraries throughout the city, but we also have millions of ebooks that people can check out, and no library in the world checks out more ebooks than the LA Public Library.

So the Los Angeles Public Library is just such an incredibly dynamic institution, and the fact that we've got James Worthy here today, it doesn't get any better than having a Lakers legend like that here at the library talking to kids about how important it is to be a reader and sending the message that kids who read succeed.

There's a new Malcolm X Way on Crenshaw Boulevard.

Councilwoman Heather Hutt joined community leaders to celebrate the legacy of Malcolm X and put him on the map in South LA.

This is an amazing day where we are celebrating a hundred years of Malcolm X's birthday by doing a dedication.

We we are naming Malcolm X Way down Crenshaw Boulevard.

This is an important location because we are at King Boulevard, so that we where King and Malcolm X meet.

This is an opportunity to spark interest, especially for our children and our community.

Well, they'll be like, oh, why is it say that?

And then there's an opportunity to talk about self-determination, self-reliance, self-education, and really the difference makers and the truth teller that Malcolm X was.

The idea here is that two great men that wrote some great history for the United States and for the world, two great minds, that of Martin Luther King and that of Malcolm X meet on these two corners together to help write and rewrite the history of the United States and America.

The organization Family F A M L I.

The Foundation for Arts Mentoring Leadership and Innovation is the founding architect organization that keeps the legacy of Malcolm X alive in the city of Los Angeles.

We've been doing that since 1992.

Two years ago, we realized a dream to bring Malcolm X's name to the street on a Crunch Show.

And so we now have Councilwoman Heather Hutt to thank, Congresswoman Maxine Waters to thank Councilman Marquise Harris Dawson and others who helped us to push this through in honor of a man who gave his life for us.

Minister Malcolm X, a human rights leader, not a civil rights leader, a human rights leader.

Me being an artist and being a former member of the Black Panther Party in the 60s.

It was significant for me to create this artwork representing his image.

And it's very important for us to recognize people like Malcolm X, who put his life on the line and his freedom on the line to fight against injustice.

Malcolm X said human rights is something all of us are born with.

Civil rights is something we have to fight for, lead, and die for.

Civil rights are something somebody gives you.

Human rights God gives you.

So every human being that's born should have human rights, the right to freedom, the right to freedom of expression, freedom of speech.

And so today, more than ever before, in our lives, we're fighting for human rights.

Malcolm X was someone who proved that transformation is possible.

That no matter where you start, that you can end in the right place.

If you dedicate yourself and have discipline and love for yourself and for your people, understand your history and your culture.

And you can do anything.

You can turn your life around and the lives of millions of other people as Malcolm did.

The geography of Los Angeles brings its own challenges when it comes to flooding.

The City of LA's Bureau of Engineering manages the city floodplains and shares its findings and plans with the community at large.

Today the Bureau of Engineering is hosting a public meeting to support the development of the floodplain management plan update.

So we're here to both share information with members of the public about the planning process, as well as hear their thoughts and ideas and information from them that will help guide the planning.

So there are multiple types of flood risks that exist: riverine flooding, dam failure, sea level rise in coastal zones, tsunamis.

Flood plain management plan addresses all of them.

So recommendations from the public gathered at these public meetings will be incorporated into the planning process.

There is a steering committee that exists as well as an expert consultant team.

Together they will analyze various flood risks and prepare for them and input from the community about conditions in the neighborhoods and their thoughts and ideas will be directly integrated into that planning process as guided by the steering committee.

We really need to hear from residents about their experiences with flooding in the neighborhoods, as well as to convey information about hazards that might be present that they need to prepare for and how the city is planning infrastructure and policy to help mitigate flood risks.

Visit engineering.lacity.gov.

Find information on the floodplain management plan there.

You'll be able to take a survey and give us input and also find out about community events.

LA Public Library announces the 2025 Creators and Residents.

Businesses contracting with the city have a new online business navigator, and LA Civil Rights hosts a housing resource fair for transgender individuals.

The stories up next on City Beat.

The Creators in Residence program is designed to engage creative artists, support new works informed by the library's collections, and highlight the library as a creative haven.