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As thousands across L.A. County undergo the process of debris removal in the burn scars, our reporter shares her family’s experience.
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Landing as a young immigrant in 1950s America was the start of a decades-long experience that was “a journey, not a destination.”
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Our new season of our WILD podcast is a Southeast L.A. rom-com starring Melinna Bobadilla, Gabrielle Ruiz and Atsuko Okatsuka, hosted by Erick Galindo and Megan Tan. It's a movie for your ears.
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El Rey de Música Ranchera embodies the same machismo that we've criticized from many of our dads and tíos. It's the toxic masculinity many of us are actively trying to rectify within our families or communities while we sing "Volver, volver" and "Estos celos."
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My Saturday mornings were corridos, cumbia, my mom yelling at me to get up and clean the bathroom and the smell of lavender-scented Fabuloso in the air.
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Not long after fleeing unrest in their own country, they encountered it again in L.A.
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When you grow up in Anaheim close enough to watch Disneyland fireworks every night while your family can’t afford to go, you can’t help but feel like you’re on the outside looking in.
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After nearly two decades spent waiting for a visa, an artist dad’s long-held dreams fueled his family’s journey to California.
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“The gains made by emigrating to America can be fragile and fraught with loss,” writes a Salvadoran American daughter of immigrants. “Yet I would not be here had they not made the decision to leave.”
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A quest to trace family roots reveals the stories of ancestors “who left the South and never looked back.”
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Ragtag teams of working-class kids played baseball with a flat tennis ball until dusk, "when we had all the time in the world.”
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Littlefeather dared to hold a mirror up to an America that preferred to think of Native Americans as a quaint memory of years gone by.
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She sat down with us in April, nearly 50 years after the night she turned down Marlon Brando's Best Actor Oscar — which is still among the most memorable and contentious in Academy Awards history.
