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Black migrants with blue-collar jobs and middle-class American dreams found their ambitions blocked by racially restrictive covenants in all-white suburbs until the 1950s.
Irvin Lai. Photo via Departures: Chinatown.
1965 Immigration changed the shaped of postwar Chinatown in Los Angeles and across the country.
Angelica Chavez protests outside the headquarters of the L.A. Unified School District | Photo: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
In L.A., adult education could also be called immigrant integration. That's what I found out on Tuesday covering one of the largest non-teacher protests I'd seen outside L.A. Unified School District headquarters.
What does it take to convince your partner to move to L.A. from another country?
Enjoy this round-up of some of the courtships recently chronicled by Arrival Stories.
Coming from other cities, one might be surprised to learn that the freeway system in L.A. is a lot more efficient than it seems.
A London ex-pat journalist and his wife takes many months to go through metamorphosis and finally arrive in Los Angeles.
Michelle Lopez was born in Chinatown, Los Angeles, while her mother and father were each born in different countries.
Chinese laborers on a handcart on the Southern Pacific Railway, connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles, ca. 1876. Photo courtesy of LAPL.
164 years ago today, the discovery of gold in Sutter's Mill triggered a wave of migration to California, including 25,000 from Canton.
Jess Espanola, born and raised near poverty in the Phillipines, uses his extaordinary talents to move to Los Angeles and win an Emmy for the Simpsons.
Great Wall of Los Angeles
The value of the mural is evident through the eyes of the growingly diverse local community. Neighbors have a personal connection to a particular panel's story or have grown up with it, learning and sharing the lessons the mural has to offer.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory's research scientist and oceanographer Bill Patzert dreamed big and landed in Los Angeles.
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