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Zoot suit: How the bold look made history and continues to influence fashion
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months ago(Rachelle Baker / For The Times) A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It...
By exploring L.A.'s racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' gave birth to Chicano theater
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months ago'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach...
Column: Sleepy Lagoon, the Zoot Suit riots and the lonely grave in East L.A. that history has...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe grave of Jose Diaz, a 22-year-old man whose murder in 1942 led to the Zoot Suit riots but who...
The untold story of the Zoot Suit riots: How Black L.A. defended Mexican Americans
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoL.A. City Councilmember Curren Price sits beside a mural depicting Charlotta Bass, owner of the...
'La Bamba' director Luis Valdez on origins of 1987 hit and why he left Hollywood after controversial...
Yahoo Movies via AOL· 8 months agoLuis Valdez talks about why he only made one more movie after La Bamba. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo...
New Visalia Fox film series focuses on beloved films
Visalia Times-Delta | Tulare Advance Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWe’re in the “ber” months (September, October, November, December). So the Visalia Fox Theatre has put together a “Ber” season of classic films—some...
Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet, Sammy Davis Jr.’s Suit and More Must-See Pieces at the Academy Museum’s...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Academy Museum’s Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is not to be missed. Not only does the...
Paulina Chávez & Rose Portillo Board ‘Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’
Deadline via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEXCLUSIVE: The Disney+ film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day has added...
L.A. County supervisors denounce 'dark chapter' of Zoot Suit Riots 80 years later
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo young men who had been attacked by racist mobs on the streets of Los Angeles during the Zoot...
Letters to the Editor: Sleepy Lagoon and L.A. law enforcement's failure to solve a young Latino's...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTo the editor: Gustavo Arellano's column on Jose Diaz — whose killing in 1942 precipitated the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, a precursor to the following year's Zoot Suit riots — was touching.