William Taylor has resorted to photographing the trash. Recently, it was a huge heap that blocked a Watts sidewalk and included palm branches, a shopping cart, a car tire and bulging garbage bags. He ...

Seven men and one woman were shot to death in Nickerson Gardens in 2021, and Chica Caldwell knew them all. Rodney Laird, she said, “was an awesome dad,” “a hands-on father.” And Timonhy Raynea Lee?

Sixty years ago, a young Black man from South Los Angeles was pulled over by a white California Highway Patrol officer after another motorist reported the man driving recklessly. What started as a ...