Before ‘Chinese Virus,’ There Was ‘Mexican Disease’ in L.A.: Remembering the...
It’s Fall. The year is 1924, and the Black Death has arrived in Los Angeles. The Macy Street district, northeast of downtown L.A. near where the Twin Towers jail complex stands today, is a maze of...
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Opening a Tokyo Taqueria and Tiki Bar Dreams: Guerrilla Tacos’ Wes Avila...
THE FOLLOWING STORY IS PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH DOORDASH During this difficult time for restaurants, DoorDash and L.A. TACO are teaming up to profile some of the most fascinating people behind...
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L.A. Loses Yet Another Black-Owned Business. Bernard Burgers Closes Its Doors...
Los Angeles lost yet another Black business with the closing of Bernard’s Burgers last week after 52 years of service in South Central. The burger stand located on 120th and Avalon near Watts was a...
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After ‘Following All the Rules,’ Ice Is Deporting This Single Mother and...
Being a selfless motel worker cleaning up after homeless veterans during a pandemic will not save you from unlawful deportation. This is the story of Mariana Lopez, a longtime and loyal employee of a...
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It Wasn’t All Looting: A Street-Level Photo Essay of Angelenos Protesting in...
Downtown L.A. ~ May 29, 2020 ~ Photos by Kemal Cilengir Mid-City ~ May 30th, 2020 ~ Photos by Kemal Cilengir Santa Monica ~ May 31, 2020 ~ Photos by Kemal Cilengir Whittier ~ May 31, 2020 ~ Photos by...
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Marching for Black Lives and Cruising to Support Undocumented Immigrants,...
On Sunday, hundreds of Whittier locals gathered last-minute in Uptown to march for justice George Floyd and to support Black Lives Matter. Two days later, on Black Tuesday, hundreds more filled...
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Black and Brown L.A. Unite for the Love of Car Culture on 14th Street in...
The relationship between an individual’s identity, style, personality, and one’s car is a popular trademark of American culture. No other city is the relationship more defined than in Los Angeles....
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L.A. Taco Members get some major perks besides supporting the only independent news community for people who love tacos and Los Angeles. Journalism matters more than ever. If you want to support our...
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‘This Is Bigger Than Carnitas:’ How an ‘All Lives Matter’ Post by El Momo...
If you found out one of your favorite and best taqueros in Los Angeles advocated for #AllLivesMatter and not #BlackLivesMatter and continued to defend the police during the country’s biggest uprisings...
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San Gabriel Valley for Black Lives Matter: Hundreds Turn Out to Protest...
The normally quiet suburbs east of downtown LA are not your usual landmarks for activism. But cities in the San Gabriel Valley such as Alhambra, Diamond Bar, Walnut, West Covina, and more have joined...
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A Black-Owned Business Boom is Brewing in DTLA Amid Protests and Pandemic,...
Joel Stallworth talks like he’s got nowhere to be, ironic considering he’s a former track star in the midst of a blitzkrieg of new business. Sure, he’s at home by this point, enjoying family time and...
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‘This is the Beginning of Healing:’ Descendents of Tongva, Chumash, and...
At 2 PM on Saturday, community members slowly gathered at Father Serra Park, a small patch of grass across the street from Union Station and Olvera Street that you’ve probably passed a million times...
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Decriminalize Street Food…Again: 100 L.A Street Vendors March for Their Right...
More than two dozen hot dogs buns filled with citations were presented in front of the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health’s headquarters in Baldwin Park yesterday morning as a form of...
View ArticleTwo Brown Men With the Same Name Shot Eight Days Apart Throws a Spotlight on...
Law enforcement shootings in L.A. are so common that two people the same exact name—Daniel Hernandez—were killed just days apart from one another in April of this year leading to confusion amongst...
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Hail, Melissa King! How a Queer Chinese American From the SGV Won Top Chef...
Seeing an out queer woman of color from the San Gabriel Valley win Top Chef in the middle of Pride Month, during our intense time of national and cultural reckoning with racism, felt as if the Dodgers...
View ArticleHere are L.A.’s Cleanest—and Dirtiest—Beaches, Graded by Heal the Bay
In what is already proving to be a long, drawn-out pandemic summer, beaches in Los Angeles County will once again be closed over the July 4th weekend. The safety of the city is deemed too difficult to...
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Before Showtime, Kobe, and Lebron, There Were the 1972 Lakers
The streak began on an ominous note. It was November 5, 1971, and Coach Bill Sharman approached Elgin Baylor with an ultimatum. The Los Angeles Lakers were 6-3 but Sharman was disappointed in the...
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Filberto ‘Beto’ Gonzalez, a Zapoteco in L.A., Loved Providing For His Family...
Filiberto “Beto” Gonzalez, a father of three and the eldest brother of eight with an extended family spanning from Huntington Park to San Pedro Cajonos in the Sierra Norte region of Oaxaca, Mexico died...
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In South Central, a Swap Meet Faces an Uncertain Future and Stirs Up...
For 30 years, Los Amigos Mall in South Central Los Angeles was a community hub for local residents. On May 20th, the vendors that make their living at the mostly indoor swap meet received 30-day...
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The Los Angeles Mayor Who Was Also a KKK Leader
The history of white supremacy and racist violence in Los Angeles is well known and well documented, from the Zoot Suit riots to the Lynwood Vikings, but it’s still somewhat shocking to learn that one...
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