It’s Black History Month, and we just watched a Super Bowl. There were Black players and white players but mostly Black. And it was OK. I mean, at least people who look like me white didn’t go out and kill a bunch of Black people for getting excited about it. It wasn’t such a big deal but it used to be.
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A first generation Japanese American finds surprising roots to Los Angeles through exploring the history and legacy of renowned artist, poet and distant relative Yumeji Takehisa.
In November 1935, Los Angeles Times reporter Timothy Turner and staff artist Charles Owens began a year-long ramble through the historic core of downtown. The Times published more than 40 vignettes of the city's aging Victorian mansions, derelict theaters and other survivals of the 19th century.
Travel back to the 1930s, when dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into desert. Disease, hardship and death followed, yet people stayed, refusing to give up on their land and way of life.