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When 16-year-old Drew Anderson shared his powerful poem about coming out to his family, he discovered that many other members of the transgender community had the same experience.
Newcomers from Iowa famously congregated each year in Southern California for their state picnic. Such gatherings were important for migrants from other parts of the world, too.
Which way is South L.A. heading? As Latinas/os have become a numerical majority in what was recently an African American neighborhood, do we see tensions, collaborations or segregation?
They had little practical knowledge of farming, but that didn't stop these idealistic colonists from trying to live off the land.
A "mysterious upswelling" in 1946 startled residents of Wilmington, California.
Why was the city of Los Angeles so scared of modern art in the mid-20th century?
Karla Gutierrez and Paola Gonzalez, an 18 and 17-year-old from Animo Inglewood Charter High School, perform an original poem that gives a voice to the struggles immigrants have and continue to face in America.
In a community surrounded by desert as far as the eye can see, there’s a group of skateboarders, known as the ‘North Shore Misfits,’ who regularly turn the abandoned buildings and streets of North Shore and Mecca into their own makeshift skate park.
South Los Angeles has always been a place of reinvention and there are a myriad of stories that complicate and challenge any monolithic rendering of this mega-neighborhood.
Built between 1929 and 1956, the Angeles Crest Highway forever changed the once-remote mountain backcountry it traverses.
For North Shore resident Jonathan Gonzalez, missing the morning bus means a three hour wait for the next one and losing a day of work.
Before it was a tourist destination, Monterey's Cannery Row was home to a tight knit, multi-cultural community of fish factory workers and the Pacific Biological Lab, a hub of local artists and writers.