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The East Los Angeles author chronicles the 14-year journey it took her to complete her novel 'Huizache Women.'

Edward James Olmos is a Chicano who through his success in Hollywood can now enjoy a day of commemoration

The legacy of the Zoot Suit Riots has never really left the consciousness of the Mexican American community.

The Los Angeles City Council formally apologized for its role in the racist and brutal attacks on young Latino, Filipino and Black Angelenos.

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The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racist attacks on the Mexican, Black and Filipino communities of Los Angeles during the first week of June 1943.

THE INAUGURAL FILM of postwar queer cinema and a watershed event in the history of the American avant-garde, Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks of 1947 is an autobiographical account of the awakening of desire. Shot when the filmmaker was only seventeen years old,1 the film is the sadomasochistic fantasy of a young man, played by the teenage Anger, who dreams he is sexually assaulted by a gang of sailors. Like its young author, the film was precocious. Made in the immediate aftermath of World War II, j...

The Academy Museum’s Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is not to be missed. Not...

The murder of Jose Diaz in 1942 led to two landmark injustices against Mexican Americans. So why has history forgotten him?

Racist views led to murder trial of 22, laid foundation for Zoot Suit riots- (This is the second article of a two-part series. Part 1 ran May 19.)On Aug. 1, 1942, after one of them had been beaten up, members of the 38th Street Club returned to Sleepy Lagoon, a reservoir along the Los Angeles River popular with Mexican...