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Confluence Long Road to Paddling the L.A. River This summer's L.A. River kayak program is the culmination of years of hard work by river advocates.See…
For residents of North Shore, getting around on public transportation can be tough. There is only one bus line serving the city, located about 20 miles south of Coachella, and it comes only once every three hours.
In a community surrounded by desert as far as the eye can see, there’s a group of skateboarders, known as the ‘North Shore Misfits,’ who regularly turn the abandoned buildings and streets of North Shore and Mecca into their own makeshift skate park.
Since 1938, the Kawana family has been serving the Japanese-American community and more with their traditional and innovative food products.
For North Shore resident Jonathan Gonzalez, missing the morning bus means a three hour wait for the next one and losing a day of work.
South Los Angeles has always been a place of reinvention and there are a myriad of stories that complicate and challenge any monolithic rendering of this mega-neighborhood.
The success of Japanese athletes at the 1932 Olympics offers insight to an interesting issue: do you root for the country you live in or the country you (or your ancestors) come from?
Which way is South L.A. heading? As Latinas/os have become a numerical majority in what was recently an African American neighborhood, do we see tensions, collaborations or segregation?
It's almost a rite of passage among the Latino staff that at first they will either offend, or be offended by, the religious behaviors of the customers.
While the Nisei Week Festival arouses cheer for seven days of celebration, the duties of the Nisei Week Queen are everlasting.
The Gardners' Federation was created at a time when there were about five to eight thousand Japanese American gardeners working in Southern California.
The collective began in 1970 with the aim to accurately portray and raise awareness of Asian Americans and their place in history through media arts.
