The Plaza de la Raza (Place of the People) is a multidisciplinary cultural arts and educational center located in Lincoln Park in East Los Angeles, California.

[1][2][3] The center was originally divided into two arms, one providing educational classes for children and adults and the other a professional theater training group.

[4] By the twenty-first century a full curriculum in theater, dance, music and arts was provided to hundreds of students yearly.

[6] In addressing an appropriations subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives in the days after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, A.

B. Spellman representing the National Endowment for the Arts asserted that the unrest was less severe on the east side of the city because Plaza de la Raza and similar institutions held the community together.