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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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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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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.
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A new memoir by sociologist Anthony Ocampo reflects on growing up gay and a child of immigrants in early 2000s L.A.
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Telling the story of Oscar Gomez was a turning point in the career of KPCC/LAist reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez.
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Student activist Oscar Gomez died under mysterious circumstances in 1994. As I looked into his death, I found parallels to my own life.
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“Sorry, I’m not into Asians,” they’d say. Not into Asians. Categorically, that is.
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Latin America is no stranger to racism and colorism — just turn on a telenovela and see for yourself. And it’s alive and well in our own communities here in the U.S.
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When you grow up identifying as "half white and half Mexican," the task of choosing what box to check on a government form isn't easy.
