They once told a seven-year-old Mexican-American boy in Waco, Texas, that he was "mentally retarded" and would never learn very much. He grew up to become a critically acclaimed journalist,...
Joan Didion defined the California Dream not as a simple utopia, but as a complex, often dark paradox of rugged individualism, reinvention, and disillusionment. Welcome to the tragic end of Lucy's...
On Aug. 29, 1970, the National Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles protested the disproportionately high number of Latino casualties in Vietnam — and ended with the police killing of Ruben...
BY GEOFF BOUCHER, MAY 11, 2008 Republished with permission of the Los Angeles Times. RANDY NEWMAN HAS MADE a career out of melodic skepticism and deadpan rhythm, but he sounded genuinely...