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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...
Zoot suit: How the bold look made history and continues to influence fashion
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Rachelle Baker / For The Times) A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It...
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...
'La Bamba' director Luis Valdez on origins of 1987 hit and why he left Hollywood after controversial...
Yahoo Movies via AOL· 9 months agoLuis Valdez talks about why he only made one more movie after La Bamba. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo...
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...
The untold story of the Zoot Suit riots: How Black L.A. defended Mexican Americans
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoL.A. City Councilmember Curren Price sits beside a mural depicting Charlotta Bass, owner of the...
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.
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...
Movie, TV, stage star Edward James Olmos to appear at 2023 Plaza Classic Film Festival
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEl Pasoans can see stage, screen and TV actor Edward James Olmos at the 16th annual El Paso...