On a recent Saturday, a boisterous crowd of families, friends and lovers danced together to cumbias, reggaeton and merengue at High Tide, a bar and music venue downtown. Suddenly everyone ...
Miguel Ramos says that at nearly every stop on the four-month bike ride he took from Los Angeles to Guatemala in 2012, someone asked his group two questions, “Where are ...
On election day last year, a conversation with family members confirmed Suzette Martinez Valladares’ hunch that Latino Republicans were about to shock California. “I swear they were socialists when they ...
Sara P. Mijares grew up watching her mother make dishes like Cochinita Pibil, a slow-cooked pork dish with red achiote that originated in Yucatán. Unsure on how to make it, ...
Within the Pomona Swap Meet’s sea of shiny Corvettes and 1950s Cadillacs, a storage truck seems out of place. In thick block letters, it reads Thump Records and is open ...
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would become a months-long hunger strike. The collective action was designed to ...
The last 12 months have been full of firsts for the De la Rosa brothers, better known as the musical trio Latin Mafia. In April, the Mexico City natives performed ...
The sun was bright and the sky was blue on Saturday morning as I enjoyed breakfast with a friend at my wife’s restaurant in downtown Santa Ana. We were talking ...
Before his death in 2020, eminent Chicano historian Juan Gómez-Quiñones packed decades of Mexican American history into the garage and shed of the Pacific Palisades home he’d lived in for ...
I’m here to champion a work of art that centers a transgender woman in the lead role, to make the case for thought-provoking cinema that subverts tropes by radically embracing ...
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