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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.
The inspired life of Ventura County Supervisor Carmen Ramirez
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Carmen Ramirez first came to Ventura County in 1978, not long out of law school, she had a hero...
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...
By exploring L.A.'s racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' gave birth to Chicano theater
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach...
L.A. apologizes for city's role in Zoot Suit riots
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoService members roamed the streets of Los Angeles on June 7, 1943, attacking people in zoot suits. (Associated Press) In the very chamber where Los...
'La Bamba' director Luis Valdez on origins of 1987 hit and why he left Hollywood after controversial...
Yahoo Movies· 9 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...
Opinion: How a historian helped TV's 'Perry Mason' tell the truth
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI grew up in a Spanish-speaking home in Echo Park. On my mother’s one day off a week from her restaurant, we’d go to matinees at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. We rarely saw people like us on the ...