Last week — in spite of a restraining order issued by California Federal Judge Maame E. Frimpong to curb targeted ICE raids across the state — the Supreme Court ruled ...
For the 79th year, mariachi musicians, waving Mexican flags and shouts of “Viva Mexico,” flooded Cesar Chavez Avenue in East Los Angeles on Sunday for the annual Mexican Independence Day ...
How does one care for their aging parent without losing sight of their own identity? The first thing Roxana Ortega will say is: “We have to not abandon ourselves.” The ...
My dad’s passport is among his most valuable possessions, a document that not only establishes that he’s a U.S. citizen but holds the story of his life. It states that ...
When I was a young UCLA constitutional law major, we learned that the Constitution wasn’t just parchment behind glass: It was a living promise, fragile and ferocious, meant to protect ...
Donald Trump is waging war on California the way Rome did on Carthage. He ordered the National Guard and the Marines to occupy parts of Los Angeles, over the objections ...
Rome Ramirez wasn’t built in a day. He was once a guitar-strumming, teenage Sublime fan in a Mexican American household in Fremont, Calif. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles ...
On a recent Saturday in July, as the sun set behind East L.A. club Don Quixote, a line of black-clothed and face-pierced youths chattered excitedly outside the venue. Inside, luchadores ...
Less than four years into his tenure, Santa Monica’s first-ever Latino police chief, Ramón Batista, has announced his resignation from a department in which he oversaw a drop in crime ...
In 2017, Gilbert Trejo and Mariana Da Silva were waiting in line at the Vista Theatre for a screening of the 1982 cult sci-fi film “Liquid Sky.” They had seen ...
