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California cut down 95% of its original coast redwood forest – much of it to build Los Angeles.
Long before concrete, iron enabled L.A. to enter the modern age.
The progress concrete once embodied seems today as brittle as some of its aging structures.
To the south of San Francisco lie the scattered remains of a vast redwood empire. This "Southern Redwood Empire" played a vital role in early California.
For 36 years, just one structure loomed especially large over Los Angeles' undisturbed horizontality: City Hall.
Since 1929, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has provided countless poor and low-income people with legal help or a crisis that threatens their shelter, security or basic needs.
As a Boyle Heights native, Alvaro Huerta recollects the legacy of community organizing within the Chicana/o-Latina/o communities and gives advice on how to sustain that activism.
On October 24, 1871, a mob of Anglos and Latinos murdered nearly 20 Chinese immigrants.
When the transcontinental railroad reached Southern California in 1876, it fueled a powerful promotional machine that promised more about Southern California – and its “semi-tropical” climate – than reality could support.
Every train to California was a magic carpet, a means to one of the most varied and exciting destinations on earth.
L.A. once sold its climate as "semi-tropical" – a term that emphasized the uniqueness of its nature. Semi-tropical was semi-miraculous.
One of the most common mediums for political art is poster making. From the Mexican Revolution to recent marches infuriated by the Trump administration, posters have continually been used as a powerful form of protest and a symbol of discontent.