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Arturo Ybarra, known as the founder of the Watts Century Latino Organization and for being tortured by the Mexican government for his college activism before the 1968 Olympics, died last month. He was ...

Pro skate stars and adaptive athletes performed side-by-side on February 22 at the grand opening of the highly anticipated Watts Skate Park in south Los Angeles. Over fifteen years in the making, the ...

The embers of Watts had cooled as Ronald Reagan raced toward his first election as California’s governor, a year after riots scarred southern Los Angeles. Yet Watts remained an ominous political ...

The day after Top Dawg Entertainment brought a free concert with performances from SZA, Doechii, Kendrick Lamar, GloRilla, and more to residents of Watts, CA., the record label continued to spread the ...

Progress can be a touchy subject for black people who came of age in South Los Angeles during the era of the Watts riots. The uprising that started 50 years ago Tuesday exposed rampant disadvantage ...

*(Watts, CA) — Clouds gave way for another beautiful, sunny day in the greater Los Angeles region. An enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Martin Luther King Jr., Shopping Center, 103rd Street and ...

In the South Los Angeles community of Watts, waitress Latrice Ridgway bounces in and out of the kitchen juggling plates of soul food for mid-morning arrivals while the restaurant's phone rings nonstop ...