On this week’s Hear in the City, we take a look at censorship in the arts from the perspective of three exhibitions taking place in Los Angeles.

In this episode, we talk to community members in Mac Arthur Park about the LAPD killing of Guatemalan day laborer, Manuel Ramirez (Jaminez), we visit Al Salam Pollería -a Halal poultry shop- on Whittier Blvd., and we look forward to jazz- vanguardist Ornette Coleman’s Los Angeles performance. And Host Sara Harris gets headphones thrown across the table at her live in the studio.

Hear in the City's arts editor, Jesse Lerner, breaks down some of the contradictions of MOCA's ultra-popular Art in the Streets exhibition at the Geffen Temporary Contemporary in downtown Los Angeles.

On this week's Hear in the City, we experience the Native American tradition of council in a non-traditional setting: a high school classroom just east of the Greyhound station in L.A.'s oldest schoolhouse, Metropolitan High where student build a theater piece inspired by on Dave Eggers non-fiction relating of Hurrica Katrina Zeitoun. And arts editor Jesse Lerner critiques the new Art in the Streets show at the Geffen Temporary Contemporary art museum in Little Tokyo.

Hear in the City host Sara Harris talks with Asiya Wadud -founder of Forage Oakland, a fruit and vegetable barter system-- about building community and equality in the city around food justice and about her mobile app collaboration with Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab, a winner of the 2010 Mac Arthur Digital Media and Learning competition.

04.12.11: CicLAvia 2011 by Sara Harris

04.11.12: Patricio Guzman by Sara Harris

04.05.11: Malick Sidibé by Sara Harris

04.05.11: Teacher Educational Program at UCLA by Sara Harris

04.05.11: Ciclavia 2011 by Sara Harris