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The 126-year-old high school is being rebuilt, with construction expected to finish by the end of 2024.

Richard Perry, who by his own sheer grit built a middle-class life for his family in Compton, was waging battle on two fronts: Fighting against COVID-19, and trying desperately to hold on to everything he had worked for.

Richard Perry, who by his own sheer grit built a middle-class life for his family in Compton, was waging battle on two fronts: Fighting against COVID-19, and trying desperately to hold on to everything he had worked for.

Print Melanie Andrews was 10 years old and bedridden with sepsis when she was introduced to the world of Shakespeare. Her teachers were her mother and grandmother, a college professor who encouraged Andrews to read from the 1950s encyclopedia series “Great Books of the Western World,” which encompasses more than 400 works of literature. Over the span of a year, Andrews estimates, she read 20 Shakespeare plays, beginning with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” while confined to her Compton home. She says she is one of the few people who has read and directed, designed or performed every ...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA America Gonzalez, who has attended multiple workshops with the Compton Girls Club, is photographed at home in Sun Valley on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times/TNS) The Compton Girls Club is the after-school program you wish you’d had as a teen LOS ANGELES — Kukim Vazquez, a 17-year-old high school senior from Compton, started baking when she was in fifth grade and has spent the last few years watching YouTube tutorials and making more cookies and cupcakes than her friends and family are able to consume. After a cousin encouraged her ...