At the height of South Africa’s AIDS crisis in the 1990s, Ryan and Gerda Audagnotti faced a call that changed everything. “We knew we couldn’t just stand by,” they share. “There were children in ...

Dwight Manley: The Brea King? Illustration by Paul Nagel. Photo by Federico Medina. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, once a young apprentice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and who later ran “Rainbow ...

White parents vastly outnumbered the handful of Mexican women who came from La Colonia Independencia to attend a Magnolia School District board meeting on Feb. 21, 1955. The show of force was there in ...

As an 11-year-old kid in the summer of 1981, life was, by all discernible metrics, pretty cool. Even in the nascent months of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, very little seemed of consequence—or even ...

The Supreme Court of California today affirmed a death penalty punishment for a one-armed amputee and immigrant, who fled Egypt on religious persecution grounds and suffered severe mental illness ...

As he walked briskly along a downtown Santa Ana sidewalk for our first meeting on a toasty, cloudless February 2014 afternoon, criminal defense attorney Scott Sanders’ brain generated waves of ...

The gleaming black Cadillac Escalade trembles at the intersection of Beach Boulevard and Cerritos Avenue in Stanton. Four young Mexican men inside, all buzz cuts and oversized white T-shirts and ...

It’s no secret that heavy metal music can be a bit morbid and macabre. Heavy metal artists have never been afraid to musically confront mortality, pain, suffering and other grim topics by creating ...

No Cal State Fullerton professor in recent memory ever needed a summer vacation more than Alain Bourget. Bourget is the math professor whose refusal to use the required textbook for his Math 250B ...

The creators and performers of NIGGER WETBACK CHINK like to say they have offended people in 44 states with their electrifying, in-your-face, comedic take on stereotypes and race. But though the play ...

The story of the 1990 New Music Seminar brawl has been whispered about for decades but never fully told—until now. This excerpt comes from Ben Westhoff's upcoming book Original Gangstas: The Untold ...

The caravan of Klansmen crept to a stop around midnight in front of the home of David and Lizzie Milder on Nov. 17, 1932. Their quaint bungalow in the Carroll Park neighborhood of Long Beach had just ...