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While migrants from all over the world have been essential to L.A.’s food industry, they have remained largely behind the scenes. It is these immigrants who are re-shaping L.A.’s culinary landscape by infusing global traditions into modern dishes.
Keithayonna Davis, an 18-year-old from College Bridge Academy, shares her experience of growing up in South Los Angeles and the harsh realities that many immigrants face in America.
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.
Eighty years after Dorothea Lange snapped her "Migrant Mother" photo, a Central Coast community seeks to celebrate its connection to the legendary image.
“L.A. is a city of immigrants,” we constantly say, and are told. This is true, to a degree. But by saying this, what is not being said? Who are imagined to be immigrants, and who are not?
The border wall would make flash floods in the desert far more destructive..
When Fresno lost its MISP, thousands of undocumented immigrants lost health care access. Today, a glimmer of hope lies ahead.
Artist Beatriz Cortez's multimedia works are greatly impacted by the aftermath of El Salvador's civil war and her migration to the United States.
Jenny Yurshansky's parents are Soviet Jewish refugees who settled in L.A. The artist will be making a trip to Moldova to explore her heritage.
Community project "Cuentos Para Dormir" ("Bedtime Stories") by Sophia Sobko is connecting children and their deported parents through literature.
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.
The making and selling of handcrafted artisanal furniture can be considered a dying trade in today's demanding economic climate that has grown accustomed to the Ikea concept of mass produced furniture. Woodworker Florencio Blanquel challenges this idea...