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Film and television writer, director and producer Archie Gips shares his arrival story.
The day after Raul Borbon died the winds, like demons, threw themselves off the peaks of the San Gabriels and wishbone-snapped every tree in their reach.
A look at big picture stories in Southern California, including hunger in California, the Rose Parade, oil drilling in the Whittier Hills and immigration.
In the 1980s disenfranchised youth of Highland Park, bereft of community resources and victims of education inequality, became increasingly susceptible to gang activity.
Between the 1980s and the early 1990s, approximately 20% of El Salvador's population fled the country. 52% of them, roughly 300,000 refuges of a civil war that tore the country and the region apart for more than a decade, settled in L.A.
The post-war Latinoization of Los Angeles was underway, a change that would transform Northeast and South Los Angeles, and which is still transforming the city to this day.