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A Local Artist Made a Mini Comic Book to Help People Understand the Andres...
Tommy Gallegos is our tiny newsroom’s unsung hero. When he’s not carefully shipping all of our hoodies and snapbacks and making sure all of our new members feel the love when they open up our New...
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Real Talk: How L.A.’s Freeways Contribute to Inequality and the City’s Racial...
To many in Los Angeles, and across the country, freeways and the traffic that defines them are as synonymous to the city as Hollywood. The 1995 classic film, “Clueless,” coined the phrase “Everywhere...
View ArticleHere are L.A.’s Cleanest—and Dirtiest—Beaches, Graded by Heal the Bay Â
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...
Filiberto “Beto” Gonzalez, a father of seven 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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A Local Artist Made a Mini Comic Book to Help People Understand the Andres...
Tommy Gallegos is our tiny newsroom’s unsung hero. When he’s not carefully shipping all of our hoodies and snapbacks and making sure all of our new members feel the love when they open up our New...
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Real Talk: How L.A.’s Freeways Contribute to Inequality and the City’s...
To many in Los Angeles, and across the country, freeways and the traffic that defines them are as synonymous to the city as Hollywood. The 1995 classic film, “Clueless,†coined the phrase...
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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 seven 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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A Local Artist Made a Mini Comic Book to Help People Understand the Andres...
Tommy Gallegos is our tiny newsroom’s unsung hero. When he’s not carefully shipping all of our hoodies and snapbacks and making sure all of our new members feel the love when they open up our New...
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Real Talk: How L.A.’s Freeways Contribute to Inequality and the City’s Racial...
To many in Los Angeles, and across the country, freeways and the traffic that defines them are as synonymous to the city as Hollywood. The 1995 classic film, “Clueless,” coined the phrase “Everywhere...
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Black Woman Lead, Founded in Memory of Breonna Taylor, Feeds Thousands of...
Volunteers working with the Crenshaw YMCA and Black Women Lead, an organization founded in memory of Breonna Taylor, spent Wednesday distributing thousands of meals to the community. Volunteers...
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This Is What Happens in Los Angeles When a Pedestrian Gets Hit By a Car
March 10, 2020—I stood in shock, under the fluorescent glow of a strip mall on a busy corner in Historic Filipinotown. “Get off me!” An elderly man screamed a few feet in front of me—after a silver BMW...
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Are Public Hand-Washing Stations Working in L.A.? Do Cops Have to Wear Face...
Lexis-Olivier Ray At yesterday’s press conference, Mayor Garcetti claimed that the maintenance of hand-washing stations “was a problem early on.” He said that today hand-washing stations are being...
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BIPOC Transwomen Suffered Vicious Attack in Hollywood as Crowd Mocked and...
Content warning: The following story contains transphobic violence and transphobic remarks. Over the last week, video footage showing three transgender women being beaten, robbed, and insulted in a...
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‘The Loss of Kobe Bryant Cuts Deep and in Layers:’ On 8/24, We Remember...
The loss of Kobe Bryant still cuts deep and in layers. Yesterday, Kobe would have turned 42 years old. Now that some time has passed to process the reality of a Kobe-less Los Angeles, some of us may...
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