After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Compton Art and History Museum is the first of its kind to open in Compton, California, which aims to preserve the city’s ...

Compton is most definitely a brand, not only linked to the athletic accomplishments of Venus and Serena Williams, but the urban violence that’s made it into hip hop lyrics, from N.W.A. to Kendrick ...

Before the Stonewall riots in New York and before Pride parades became a summer staple, there was a cup of coffee hurled in the Tenderloin. In the summer of 1966, a trans woman at Compton's Cafeteria ...

When Drew de Pinto first learned about the Compton’s Cafeteria riot—in which a diner in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district erupted in fighting between a group of trans women and the police—the ...

“Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California” (University of Pennsylvania Press), explores the history of Compton, even as the story continues to unfold, and asks how Compton’s ...

Anthony Lee Pittman, "Sons Like Me" (2023), Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 20 inches x 30 inches (image courtesy the artist) LOS ANGELES — On a recent Saturday afternoon, an enthusiastic crowd gathered ...

The Streets Raised Us. Horses Saved Us. That's the powerful tagline embodied by the Compton Cowboys, a group of 10 people in the inner pocket of downtown Los Angeles that not only illuminate the art ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent ...