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This high school course is dividing districts across California
In January, the Palo Alto school board met to discuss requiring high schoolers to take courses covering the displacement of Native Americans and the Black Panthers’ role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Excavating the burn layer in Altadena
As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...
WrestleMania? In Los Angeles, It’s LuchaMania.
Lucha libre, the Mexican version of professional wrestling, is thriving in Los Angeles, where the action and the masks draw ...
My L.A. neighborhood won’t be the same when Say Cheese closes
A 10-year-old cheese lover laments that rising rents will close a shop that helps make Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood ...
For the L.A. Olympics, an increasingly common strategy behind the sprawl
In setting the 2028 Olympic venues, L.A. is embracing its expansive geography — a trend toward sprawl that's becoming the ...
California ed officials find bias in Bay Area district’s ethnic studies classes
Two Silicon Valley ethnic studies teachers violated California law when they included content related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was biased and discriminated against Jewish students, ...