A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It is copied, amended and upgraded, embraced by Hollywood actors in search of the fashionable. As it travels the country in the late ...

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Monday, June 26. I’m Steve Padilla, editor of Column One, The Times’ showcase for storytelling. This month marks the 80th ...

L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price sits beside a mural depicting Charlotta Bass, owner of the pioneering Black newspaper California Eagle, and victims of the Zoot Suit riots. (Dania Maxwell / Los ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The dancing that took place in Los Angeles City Hall on Friday wasn't a celebration, it was a reminder of one of the darkest periods in the city's history. Eighty years ago -- ...

Eighty years ago this month, the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles led to brief unrest in San Diego. The so-called “riots” were a series of ethnically motivated attacks by military personnel and others ...

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The Zoot Suit Riots, a series of violent clashes that erupted in Los Angeles in June 1943, remain a stark reminder of racial tensions, wartime anxieties, and the consequences of systemic ...

Latinx cartoonist Marco Finnegan has re-imagined the Zoot Suit riots for an unconventional YA graphic novel that is published this coming week. And it remember another time, that seems suddenly rather ...

They were targeted and beaten. Stripped of their prized garbs and brutalized in the streets. This June marks the 80th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, a dark period in Los Angeles and American ...

Los Angeles County officials along with the city council have issued an apology for the "shameful" Zoot Suit Riots 80 years later. In 1943, white, uniform servicemen attacked young Mexican, Latino, ...