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The Mexican Independence Day Celebration returns on Sept. 16-17 with a weekend of traditional and regional Mexican food, cultural music and dance, childrens projects and games, and a 13-foot piñata filled with candy and toys to be dropped from a crane.

The Sixth Street Viaduct may have started life as a functional overpass on the Los Angeles River, but in the decades since, it has grown into a symbolic gateway. Here are some historic photos of the Sixth Street Viaduct.

Organized by the South El Monte Arts Posse, the new mural hearkens back to El Monte's lost history of mural art and activism, recovering lost images and stories whitewashed by a citywide moratorium imposed in the 1970s.

Forty-four years after murals were banned in El Monte, public art has returned to the Valley Mall.

15th September 1974: Leader of 200,000 American farmworkers, Cesar Chavez. (Photo by Tim Graham/Evening Standard/Getty Images) But while this was a day of celebration, on social media, many insinuated that her speech was made in front of Nazi symbology - they were talking about a flag with an eagle on it. “Hey libs, was Jill Biden blowing a Nazi dogwhistle?” wrote a Twitter account, sharing a photo of the first lady with the flag with an eagle insignia in the background, along with a ...