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For decades, since before the Watts Rebellion of 1965 to current day, Watts has always remained vital as locals have found ways to generate economic…
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In recent weeks there have been numerous articles on the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb by the United States Military in Hiroshima.…
Since 1966, the Watts Summer Festival was created by antipoverty organizers and black nationalists to celebrate culture and heritage.<br />
In the 50 years since the Watts Rebellion and given recent social unrest foddered by racial and socio-economic disparities, what has changed in our local…
Mormon colony of San Bernardino
In 1851, 437 Latter-day Saints set out from the Great Salt Lake City to establish a Mormon foothold in Southern California.
The Brownstone Lofts in Angelino Heights | Photo: Los Angeles Public Library
It's hard to believe that within this gentrified building in Angelino Heights, one of the grisliest, strangest murders in L.A. took place.
On a hot, dusty corner in San Gabriel, just south of the rumble from the train tracks the San Gabriel / Nursery & Florist's large sign towers over the…
There aren't many places in LA as layered as the Descanso Gardens in La Cañada-Flintridge: pre-colonial oak forest, colonial period rancho, formal garden, commercial nursery, and home to one of LA's most controversial figures.
Police and community relations came under scrutiny during and after the riots, particularly by Lt. Governor Glen Anderson. I Photo courtesy of the California State University, Dominguez Hills archives -- Watts Then and Now exhibit.
Fifty years ago this week, Watts exploded with violence. The scenario sounds uncomfortably familiar in today's environment of racially fueled police abuse and racial tension. What sparked the uprising in 1965 was a physical altercation while a white po...
The working conditions of the El Monte sweatshop operation in 1995, following a raid by state and federal agencies. | Photo: Philip Bonner
Twenty years ago this month, a raid on an El Monte sweatshop holding 72 Thai laborers in captivity opened the public's eyes to how such severe labor exploitation can exist in the Land of the Free.
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With the Republican primaries on the horizon and Donald Trump's comments about Mexican migrants ringing in Angeleno ears, looking back at this history provides a valuable tool for framing current and future immigration debates.
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This tight-knit family's story reads like a California soap opera -- chock full of intrigue and triumph, tragedy and mystery.
Artists, writers and lovers of L.A. find inspiration in the peculiarly deceptive qualities of L.A.'s natural light.
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