Damien Goodmon of Downtown Crenshaw on Buying the Block and the Mall Segment #3

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Description: Twenty seven year Leimert Park resident Damien Goodmon has been labeled a “visionary” by the LA Times. Damien is Co Founder and Board Member for Downtown Crenshaw and a founding member of the Community Land Trust and Liberty Eco-System. Downtown Crenshaw’s quest to buy the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw mall captivated national attention and built considerable momentum for the buy the block movement through the creation of the Community Land Trust and LibertyEco System.Org. Their work on the solidarity economy has already yielded collective ownership of at least six properties in South Los Angeles. Dominique DiPrima has been bridging worlds since she arrived on the planet. Ms. DiPrima was born in New York City but grew up the quintessential California Kid. Her mother is Beat poet/icon Diane DiPrima, her dad, poet Amiri Baraka, is considered the father of Black Arts Movement. The daughter of two activists, of two coasts, of an African American father & Italian American mother, she has a unique perspective. Dominique is the child of two poets laureate…A product off hip-hop and pop. She loves talking to people from all walks of life, it’s a habit she may have perfected while attending 16 different schools by the time she graduated from twelfth grade. She’s also loves to listen and those skills have allowed her to talk to the people of Los Angeles almost every day for over two decades keeping a pulse on current events and emerging movements. Dominique first decided to step to the microphone as a rapper at the age of 13 at The Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan’s Alphabet City. Next she won the spot as official emcee for The San Francisco Ballet Break Dancers. Ms. DiPrima’s adventures in hop-hop as Lady “D” and onstage with SF’s Teatro Latino led to her landing a job as host of Home Turf on KRON-TV. HT was a pioneering television show coming out of NBC’s San Francisco affiliate long before Yo MTV Raps or 106 & Park. Dominique DiPrima AKA Lady “D” became a Bay Area hip-hop legend. Dominique also worked as a writer/segment producer and later a producer on the show. Ms. DiPrima went on to host Home Turf with Dominique DiPrima for 8 seasons garnering 5 Emmy Awards, a SAG/AFTRA American Scene Award and 10 Parents Choice Awards. During that time she continued her activism, full time college and work in theater, acting in more than 30 plays. She (finally!) graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University. When Home Turf wrapped Dominique headed for Los Angeles. After working as a TV Segment Producer for Rysher-TPE and Buena Vista Television Dominique reconnected with some Bay Area broadcasters and joined the iconic L.A. radio powerhouse 92.3 FM The Beat. For her first ever radio job Dominique created the edutainment talk show Street Science with Dominique DiPrima. She was also charged with putting #dominiquediprima #Dominique #Diprima