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News Update: Dodgers to Extend Netting, Dolores Huerta Square Unveiled & Goat...
View this post on Instagram @mishelprada is the critically acclaimed star of @vida_starz & she’s reading the news today! @doloreshuerta was honored in Boyle Heights. Plus @the_goat_mafia and...
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My Favorite Taco: Nina Revoyr on the ‘Los Angeles That I Know’
Rick Nagano is thirty-two, broke, and still a student. The only son of blue-collar Japanese immigrants and USC history doctoral student desperately needs a job to fund his final year of graduate school...
View Article‘Necesitamos Incluir’ ~ Ranking the Awkward Spanish in the First 2020...
It was ‘curtains up’ for the spectacle of the 2020 presidential election on Wednesday night in Miami, as the first of two groups in the overcrowded Democratic primary fought for speaking time before...
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‘Little Tijuana:’ Drama Erupts at Neighborhood Council Meeting over Backlash...
A banner with the spray-painted words “Little Tijuana” was unveiled by two masked protestors at approximately 8:57 PM in Glassell Park’s monthly neighborhood council meeting last night. They were just...
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Hundreds of Illegal Sidewalk Planters Are Still Displacing the Homeless in...
Planters, those eyefuls of modern DIY gardening may appear to be an excellent use of urban space in Los Angeles, but they are unfavorable to the city’s growing homeless population. Some of the planters...
View ArticleA Progressive Daughter of a Taquero Is Coming for Huizar’s City Council Seat
Los Angeles has always been home to fierce community advocates, from Maxine Waters to Dolores Huerta. Lately, a wave of young progressive Latinas have been running for office and coming for...
View ArticleOpinion: The Racist ‘Public Charge’ Rule Punishes Poor Immigrants and Will...
The xenophobic uglies in the Supreme Court voted in Trump’s racist public charge rule 5 – 4. This rule gives DHS the authority to deny immigrants legal entry or permanent status if they are deemed...
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#HotGirlsForBernie and Why Women and Nonbinary People Should Take up More...
Twitter was feeling the Bern last Friday as hundreds of women and nonbinary people participated in #HotGirlsForBernie posting selfies with the hashtag and posting messages in support of Tio Bernie....
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“Reject the Cover-Up,” Protesters Descend on Los Angeles City Hall After...
After an exhausting few months between the United States Congress and President Donald J. Trump over his involvement in soliciting Ukraine’s help in the 2020 election, a couple of hundred people came...
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Here’s Tio Bernie Sanders’ New Video on L.A.’s Housing Crisis, an L.A. Taco...
California’s Primary is creeping up on all of us here in Los Angeles. And among the usual relevant national topics like healthcare and immigration, there is no greater local issue to address in L.A....
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L.A. Taco Votes: Your Ultra Last Minute Voter Guide for Los Angeles County
The District Attorney Race Let’s start with the DA race. It might not be as sexy as the City Council races (yes, local politics is sexy!), but DA ‘s have almost unchecked power in deciding who is...
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‘The System Failed Him:’ For the Last Remaining Sibling of the Zaragoza...
Annette Zaragoza-Bilow didn’t have a role in crafting Measure R, but her support for the measure is deeply personal. If it passes, the measure will not only give the Sheriff Civilian Oversight...
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Update: L.A.’s City Council Watered Down a Motion That Protects Renters...
In a city where 50 percent of tenants are rent-burdened—paying 1/3 of their income in rent—and with restaurants, bars, events, and all gatherings of 10 or more people shut down due to the COVID-19...
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Marching for Black Lives and Cruising to Support Undocumented Immigrants,...
On Sunday, hundreds of Whittier locals gathered last-minute in Uptown to march for justice George Floyd and to support Black Lives Matter. Two days later, on Black Tuesday for hundreds more filled...
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‘This Is Bigger Than Carnitas:’ How an ‘All Lives Matter’ Post by El Momo...
If you found out one of your favorite and best taqueros in Los Angeles advocated for #AllLivesMatter and not #BlackLivesMatter and continued to defend the police during the country’s biggest uprisings...
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San Gabriel Valley for Black Lives Matter: Hundreds Turn Out to Protest...
The normally quiet suburbs east of downtown LA are not your usual landmarks for activism. But cities in the San Gabriel Valley such as Alhambra, Diamond Bar, Walnut, West Covina, and more have joined...
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Decriminalize Street Food…Again: 100 L.A Street Vendors March for Their Right...
More than two dozen hot dogs buns filled with citations were presented in front of the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health’s headquarters in Baldwin Park yesterday morning as a form of...
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Are Public Hand-Washing Stations Working in L.A.? Do Cops Have to Wear Face...
Lexis-Olivier Ray At yesterday’s press conference, Mayor Garcetti claimed that the maintenance of hand-washing stations “was a problem early on.” He said that today hand-washing stations are being...
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Lacey vs. Gascón: Los Angeles’ Divisive—and Defining—District Attorney’s Race
What happens in one DA’s race could set the course for the future of law enforcement in America. By Joe Rihn As a summer of unrest draws to a close, the contest to lead the nation’s largest district...
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UPDATE: L.A. Taco Legal Corner: Filing Fees to Become a U.S. Citizen to...
Update on October 1, 2020: A federal judge issued a temporary, nationwide injunction on the USCIS fee increases that were to go into effect on October 2. If you are eligible for naturalization, or...
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