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City Of Oil
Los Angeles, you might be surprised to learn, sits on top of the largest urban oil field in the country and has been the site of oil extraction for a…
5 years, 6 months ago
How I Made It: Jessie Reyez
Jessie Reyez sings sad songs, but it's those songs along with her soulful voice and brutally honest lyrics that have garnered her fans around the wor…
5 years, 6 months ago
Portrait Of: Residente
In 2005, a duo of Puerto Rican artists released their eponymously titled debut album "Calle 13." Their mix of reggaeton and rap took the Latinx music…
5 years, 6 months ago
Unjust And Unsolved: JJ Velazquez
In 1998, JJ Velazquez was sentenced to life for the murder of a police officer in Harlem, New York. The twenty-one-year-old father had an alibi that …
5 years, 6 months ago
A Socially Distant Christmas Special
Christmas and the holiday season are usually a time for Latinos and Latinas to gather together and celebrate, but COVID-19 has turned those holiday c…
5 years, 6 months ago
From Cop To Progressive Prosecutor: George Gascón
George Gascón was recently elected as Los Angeles County’s District Attorney, and his victory was hailed as a big win for a movement of progressive p…
5 years, 6 months ago
Equations For Liberation, A Conversation With Kelly Lytle Hernandez
When historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez was denied access to Los Angeles Police Department’s arrest records for her research on mass incarceration, she …
5 years, 7 months ago
How I Made It: From Med School Student To Cimafunk
It was only a few years ago that Erik Rodriguez was attending medical school in his native Cuba, following his family of careerists’ footsteps. But t…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Amazon's Burning Libraries
The arrival of the novel coronavirus in Munduruku territory, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, has threatened the lives of the group, and its ent…
5 years, 7 months ago
Getting Real About Pregnancy
Pregnancy comes with all kinds of questions, but the journey to pregnancy and the mishaps along the way are often overlooked or taboo in the Latino c…
5 years, 7 months ago