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Op-Ed: The long, deep reach of the U.S. Border Patrol
By Reece Jones | Los Angeles Times | JUL. 17, 2022 | Photo by Matt York for AP Most people think of the border as a distant line tracing the outside edge of the United States. That is not how the U.S. government sees it. The border is officially defined ... -
Jamie Lee Curtis assumed Ana de Armas ‘had just arrived’ from Cuba. Big mistake.
By Christie D'Zurilla | Los Angeles Times | JUL. 14, 2022 | Photo by Chris Pizzello Note to Jamie Lee Curtis: Never publicly admit something boneheaded you once thought, before you learned otherwise. Because people on social media won’t hesitate to call you out. The actor, who co-starred in “Knives ... -
Here’s the Camera. Go!
The L.A. Rebellion film movement, born at UCLA in 1969, enabled minority student directors — Black, Chicano, Asian American and Native American — to tell the world about their communities. By Hugh Hart | UCLA Film, History and Journalism | JUN. 14, 2022 | Photos by Jessica Pons At the ... -
Column: A speech and debate team that dominates with a squad of immigrant kids and ...
By Frank Shyong | Los Angeles Times | JUN. 24, 2022 | Photo by Derek Yuill What Southern California institution has won five championships over the last two decades and has never failed to make the postseason? Hint: It’s not the Lakers, Clippers or Dodgers. I’m speaking of the speech ... -
I can't serve my country if Congress doesn't pass a path to citizenship
"I'm grateful for DACA, but now I'm scared that a looming court decision could pull the rug out from 'Dreamers' like me." Opinion by Antonio Valdovinos | AZCentral | JUN. 25, 2022 | Photo by Cheryl Evans On 9/11, I was in sixth grade. I remember watching the attack on ... -
Book Review: The ‘Bad Mexicans’ who made U.S. and Mexican history
By Fidel Martinez | Los Angeles Times | JUN. 9, 2022 “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands,” the latest book by historian Kelly Lytle Hernández, starts off with the lynching of Antonio Rodríguez in Rocksprings, Texas. The 20-year-old Mexican ranch hand was taken by a mob and ... -
Commentary: The artist in CSULB’s new exhibit is a major donor. That’s bad, and so ...
By Christopher Knight | Los Angeles Times | JUN. 13, 2022 | Photo by Tatiana Mata The other day, I drove over to Cal State Long Beach and saw an exhibition of Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld’s paintings and drawings from the last 30 years, which are on view inside the Carolyn ... -
An artist confronts the anguish, and hope, of Ukraine
By Patrick J. McDonnell | Los Angeles Times | JUN. 1, 2022 | Photo by Dogukan Keskinkilic IRPIN, Ukraine — As Russian forces were advancing on Kyiv in late February, the Ukrainian military tried to stall them by blowing up a highway bridge just north of the capital. It may have helped. ... -
Why the Children of Immigrants Are the Ones Getting Ahead in America
Excerpt and Book cover by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan | TIME | JUN. 1, 2022 In April 2020, the New York Times ran a special feature called “I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility.” “It used to be a given that each American generation would do better than the last,” the piece began, ... -
Lalo Alcaraz and the Long Journey of a Latino Political Cartoonist
Does winning a prestigious award mean that Alcaraz is now accepted by the mainstream? By Graciela Mochkofsky | The New Yorker | MAY 18, 2022 | Photo from Alcarez's Instagram Like many prestigious awards that recognize great accomplishment in this country, the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, created in 2004 ...
