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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· 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...
Today’s white working-class young men who turn to racist violence are part of a long, sad American...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoDressed in orange prison garb, Payton Gendron is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 10...
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...
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.
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...
Podcast: Lowriders lawfully cruise again
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA lowrider cruises through Elysian Park for the Zoot Suit Riots Cruise (Steve Saldivar / Los Angeles Times) Few things are more beautiful on a California...
The ’90s Were a Golden Age of Novelty Pop Hits. We Did Not Appreciate How Good We Had It
GQ via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIn an excerpt from his new book 60 Songs that Explain the ’90s, critic and podcaster Rob Harvilla...
The types of stories told during Hispanic Heritage Month are important | Opinion
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMarta V. Martínez is the founder and executive director of Rhode Island Latino Arts and continues to...