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Los Angeles can claim a unique place in the culinary world in which a sense of deep social history can be felt from the sampling of its food culture. We take a look at how food played an important role in shaping Chinatown.
Thousands of immigrants' rights and labor activists marched downtown on Sunday, rallying for amnesty and for collective bargaining rights for unions. Check out our slideshow.
Each year U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deports thousands to countries around the world. Here's a breakdown.
I don't like using the lawnmower. The fumes remind me of the military trucks that came through town every Sunday.
When Griffith D. Compton donated his land to incorporate and create the city of Compton in 1889, he stipulated that a certain acreage be zoned for agricultural purposes only, and Richland Farms was born.
In the West, Republicans have been gunning for the Endangered Species Act since it was enacted in 1968 and targeting the Wilderness Act (1964) even longer.
Los Angeles is no longer being shaped by infrastructure and development. Today, L.A. is being transformed by ethnic and cultural diversity.
Interstate 10 ties Los Angeles to Phoenix.
Although a federal judge has stayed aspects of Arizona's new laws aimed at requirement immigrants to present papers, L.A. city is keeping its boycott, and angry L.A. citizens are hitting the street.
Tracing her family's Chinese-American journey from the small impoverished village of Dimtao to the wild, dusty streets of Los Angeles in the 1870's, Lisa See's family memoir weaves a complex tapestry that is vital to the history of Los Angeles.
In a series of video interviews, Professor Zhou explores the nature of the networked culture created by early Chinese immigrants through Family Associations and the lessons that this experience sheds on contemporary migration.