By Kent Forrester – Ricochet.com – Photo Not Credited. Around 1948, Red and I, both around ten-years-old and, true to our Irish DNA, red-headed and as pale as the underside of a trout, wandered into a dicey area of Compton, California. We were out a bit...
By Kristen Lopez – Remezcla.com – Photo Courtesy Of HBO. Photo: “Real Women Have Curves” still featuring America Ferrera. Patricia Cardoso’s 2002 indie feature, Real Women Have Curves follows a first-generation Mexican-American (played by...
By Lettycia Terrones – HBook.com – Photo Not Credited. In 1942 Los Angeles, after working all day at the canneries, teen sisters Lorena and Marisela can’t wait to put on their sharpest swing skirts and high heels for a night of jazz dancing with...
By Khanya Khondlo Mtshali – Timeline.com – AP Photo. Photo: A young pachuco sporting a zoot suit being held on vagrancy charges in Los Angeles County jail during the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. (AP Photo) The tensions surrounding the zoot suit culminated in...
By Special to PeoplesWorld.org – PeoplesWorld.org – Image WInter Garden Theatre. Over the course of five days, beginning on June 3, 1943, simmering racial unease exploded as hundreds of white sailors stationed in Los Angeles stormed into East L.A. and...
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