Los Angeles Poverty Department

10/01/2026

We’re getting ready for the next festival- happening on October 24&25!
Come see the movie with all performances of last year’s festival tomorrow!

09/18/2026

TONIGHTS AT 7!

09/12/2026

09/12/2026

In an effort to be good stewards of the materials we house, the Skid Row Archive has given serious thought to how different categories of users access to those materials.

Here, media Archivist Henry Apodaca shares more about the access levels we have in the archive, and why they are important. This is part of a series on the ethical considerations of a community-based archive. Follow us for more!

Interested in exploring Skid Row history for yourself? Visit our interactive online collection, the Walk the Talk Archive, where you can watch videos with activists and visionaries who have shaped Skid Row. Link in bio or at https://app.reduct.video/lapd/walk-the-talk

Interested in visiting the archive, talking to an archivist, or researching in our physical collections? Contact skidrowarchive (at) lapovertydept (dot) org.

08/31/2026

The next Movie Night at the Museum is this Friday, September 4 at 7PM!

Celebrate Labor Day Weekend with this moving documentary that reconstructs two pivotal months in Spring 1968, just before Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, as a local labor dispute of Memphis sanitation workers escalates into a major battle for economic and civil rights, drawing MLK into the final confrontation of his life. Amidst the community and labor unions marching in support of the strike, a simple protest sign is raised: “I Am A Man.”

08/04/2026

Here's everything happening at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive in August!