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The Sixth Street Viaduct may have started life as a functional overpass on the Los Angeles River, but in the decades since, it has grown into a symbolic gateway. Here are some historic photos of the Sixth Street Viaduct.
It is important in research not prop up tropes, stereotypes and caricatures — whether they are in the historical record or our times today.
In the 20th century, when the queer rights movement was just surfacing, the queer nightlife scene coexisted as a safe haven as well as a place of resistance and activism.
For decades, print publications, like Trikone Magazine, Bombay Dost and Shakti Khabar, told stories by and for queer South Asians in the '80s and '90s. And, they were fearless.
Rare photographs surface of L.A.'s Chinatown in the early 1930s. These photographs are being used to bring the original Chinatown — on what is now Union Station — to AR life.
An early Chinese immigrant's experience navigating restrictive immigration laws and practices in the 1800s uncover details about the formation of Los Angeles' Chinese community and reveal strategies developed to work in and around laws or sometimes counter them directly in court.
Los Angeles has been the setting for many important chapters in the struggle for LGBTQ community, visibility and civil rights in the U.S. Here are 15 destinations that tell the history of queer L.A.
Activists have questioned issues of working conditions, cultural representations, freedom of expression, and wider politics at Disneyland.
Neither model minority nor gangster: Asian American youth resist racial profiling by the police in the 1990s.
Four decades of activism led to shutting down this nuclear plant in 2013.
After years of activism, this central village of Orange County's Indigenous people recently opened as a park space for the Acjachemen people.
Pressel Orchard, one of the few remaining citrus groves in Orange County, was also the starting point for a long-forgotten but influential orange-picker strike.