Within months of the convictions, Los Angeles erupted in the Zoot Suit Riot. For the better part of a week, servicemen from different armed forces dragged kids off streetcars, from restaurants ...

The 2024 Día de los Muertos communal gathering was held by the Barrio Arts and Ethnic Studies department in the library quad ...

The Los Angeles police went to great lengths to arrest young Mexican Americans and put them in prison. Pachuco Luis Garcia alleges that anyone wearing a zoot suit would be jailed if spotted on the ...

Padded shoulders originated in military and hunting attire. But they’ve come to communicate so much more, creating a silhouette embraced by both candidates.

Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: If we go back to the pachucos in the 1940s, they were surrounded by military personnel in Los Angeles waiting to leave to fight in World War II. And the presence of pachucos ...

In the 1930s, Mexican American youth in the Southwest united to oppose racism, segregation and discrimination in the United States. Influenced by the style of Black Americans in Harlem, New York ...

The 2024 Tooth of Time Distinguished Career Award will be presented to Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit, La Bamba). Honoring ...

The shop launched with an epic zoot suit campaign, for which she gave nine L.A. designers full creative freedom to reimagine the suit. A native of Los Angeles, Marquez is also a costume designer ...

Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles quickly found ways to identify one another and create places for themselves to belong. This first happened with the Pachucos during the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots ...

Suits LA will revolve around areas of law that seem to be ... has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients ...