Arline Hernandez, 73, said the Sears store at Olympic Boulevard and Soto Street has long been a symbol of home, its green neon rooftop sign visible for miles around. “As little kids we would always...

Melina Abdullah, a Cal State LA professor, activist and one of the founding members of the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Black Lives Matter movement, is credited for helping spark the recent racial reckoning....

Twenty-year public radio veteran Alex Cohen is known for her interviewing skills and political knowledge. She never expected those skills to catch the attention of a local television outlet and launch...

Updated March 23: Robert Weide’s department has been corrected. At an event this month, some Cal State LA students had the opportunity to virtually sit down with the ambassadors of LA urban culture,...

When husband-and-wife team Marcos Aguilar and Minnie Ferguson wanted to start a charter school centered on their culture and taught partly in Nahuatl, a native language of the Aztecs, they realized they...

After a year loaded with downfalls, students reflected on the 2020 trends that helped them get through quarantine and a full semester of virtual learning.   Among many trends the year brought on,...

If Leimert Park is considered an artistic and cultural hub, at least part of the credit goes to Ben Caldwell, who started the Leimert Park Art Walk 10 years ago and has worked on various projects in the...

Every year, my family crowds around the kitchen island creating a big mess and getting masa stuck underneath our fingernails and I get the chance to ask my aunt questions about my roots. My family’s...

As a kid growing up in El Monte, Rogelio Avila, said he grew up at the local arcades. He spent so much time at one game store in particular, even in his 20s, that a manager he befriended there taught...

This year came with many uncertainties. That’s why taking care of my well-being — including being considerate about the food I consume — has been so important. It really has made a difference...

“My story is that I wasn’t scared straight out of gangs. I was cared straight,” said Luis J. Rodriguez, book author of the memoir: “Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.”  As part...

The pandemic led events to be canceled, but that was not enough to keep the Department of Theatre and Dance down.  Department chair Meredith Greenburg has been working with the cast and staff members...