The Zoot Suit Riots remain one of the most racially charged episodes in American history, highlighting tensions between white servicemen and Mexican American youth in Los Angeles. While the riots are ...

US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown sparked violent protests in Los Angeles, prompting the deployment of ...

On June 3, 1943, an altercation between U.S. Navy sailors and young Mexican Americans on the streets of Los Angeles led to ...

Local papers framed the racial attacks as a vigilante response to an immigrant crime wave, and most of the people arrested ...

Chinese massacres, Zoot Suit beatings, Watts violence, and Rodney King riots show how Los Angeles has always been America's ...

From generation to generation, it seems, Los Angeles burns.

1965 — After NASA launched Gemini 4 into orbit, pilot Ed White became the first American astronaut to conduct a spacewalk. Commander James McDivitt shot an iconic photo of White with space above him, ...

In the City of Angels, the flames that define civil unrest are more often than not fueled by America’s original sin: our history of bias, discrimination, and racial injustice.

Originally, California’s road signs were black with white lettering, but the state changed them after a federal rule was ...

Domingo wore two looks, his first a bright blue, Valentino cape. The cape came off revealing a black-and-white zoot suit underneath. Domingo drew his inspiration from kings and from the late Andre ...