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Column: Sheriff Villanueva just showed the world the petty emptiness behind his bluster
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | APR. 27, 2022 With his burly build, close-cropped hair, eternal smirk and laconic voice, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has spent his first term trying to present himself as a lonely hero thanklessly taking on societal ills. He certainly plays the role by ... -
What we got wrong about Black and Korean communities after the L.A. riots
By Frank Shyong | Los Angeles Times | APR. 27, 2022 | Photo by Hyungwon Kang “What are you doing down here?” The year was 2017, and I was at the intersection of Manchester and South Normandie avenues, where the Los Angeles riots had raged a quarter century before. I ... -
Column: He was murdered during the L.A. riots. We can’t forget Latinos like him
Arellano highlights the lasting effects that the civil unrest of '92 have had on the lives of several Latino families. By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | APR. 27, 2022 | Photo by Tomas Ovalle BAKERSFIELD — Thirty years ago, Eduardo Cañedo Vela was the manager at a Japanese restaurant in ... -
How Santa Ana segregated Mexican students amid the 1918 pandemic
By Gabriel San Ramon | LA Times | APR. 14, 2022 | Photo from the archives of Chapman University Before influenza cases ravaged through Orange County in the fall of 1918, a battle brewed at the Santa Ana Board of Education over Mexican students. Trustees reneged on their promise to ... -
Honoring the life of Armando Navarro — scholar, activist and Chicano leader
By Alfonso Gonzalez Toribo and Jennifer R. Najera | Press-Enterprise | APR. 16, 2022 | Photo from UC Riverside The Inland Empire has lost an important scholar and activist. Armando Navarro, a retired UC Riverside ethnic studies professor, passed away from a heart attack on March 25, 2022. He was ... -
Rosario Ibarra, Mexico’s champion of the disappeared, dies at 95
The world mourns the loss of a tirelessly brave advocate for human rights. By Maria Verza | LA Times | APR. 18, 2022 | Photo by Marco Ugarte MEXICO CITY — Rosario Ibarra, whose long struggle to learn the fate of her disappeared son helped develop Mexico’s human rights movement and ... -
Puerto Rico’s future status should not be a pawn in political gameplay
By Jean Guerrero | LA Times | APR. 14, 2022 | Photo by Patrick Semansky For Democrats who want to stop the right-wing assault on democracy, statehood for Puerto Rico can seem like a simple fix — one so enticing it may be easy to forget the will of the Puerto Rican people. As ... -
‘A slap in the face’: House Dems’ super PAC sparks Latino backlash
A newly drawn House district offered the prospect of electing Oregon’s first Latina to Congress. Then a top super PAC unexpectedly swooped in. By Sabrina Rodriguez | POLITICO | APR. 17, 2022 | Photo by Andrew Selsky for AP Andrea Salinas has endorsements from top Latino groups and from half ... -
CSU provost faced retaliation after reporting harassment by president’s husband, records claim
In the wake of the Board of Trustees' recent ouster of former Chancellor Joe Castro, more and more of the dirty laundry of other officials within the CSU system keeps coming out. By Colleen Shalby & Robert J. Lopez | LA Times | APR. 13, 2022 | Photo by Alyssa ... -
Is L.A. witnessing the end of the ‘Latino paradox’?
For the first time in the last decade, the mortality rate for Latinos in Los Angeles County became worse than that of white residents, starting in 2020 — the first year of the pandemic — and worsening the next year. By Andrew J. Campa, Rong-Gong Lin II, Emily Alpert Reyes ...
