Recently in Chinatown
Neighborhood Notes:
In a rare move, the House of Representatives apologizes for the 130-year-old law that prohibited many Chinese from immigrating to the United States.
Neighborhood Notes:
Each year Los Angeles becomes home to thousands of refugees from around the world.
History:
This week in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act barred immigration from China. While this marked a significant point in U.S. history when a specific group was targeted in an exclusionary immigration law, it was not the first of its kind, nor was it the last.
Laws That Shaped LA:
1965 Immigration changed the shaped of postwar Chinatown in Los Angeles and across the country.
Arrival Stories:
Michelle Lopez was born in Chinatown, Los Angeles, while her mother and father were each born in different countries.
Portraits:
164 years ago today, the discovery of gold in Sutter's Mill triggered a wave of migration to California, including 25,000 from Canton.
Chinatown:
Discover the amazing sights and treats on the Get Sum Dim Sum Ride, every 3rd Sunday of the month with The Flying Pigeon LA bicycle shop in Highland Park.
Venice:
Last week, Land of Departures toured the first half of Departures' collection of oral history interviews with nine prominent Southern California elected officials. That political roll call featured: Compton Mayor Eric J. Perrodin, Compton City Councilmember Yvonne Arceneaux, State...
Richland Farms:
Departures has sought out and collected oral histories from nine prominent current and former Southern California elected officials. This week Land of Sunshine takes a tour of the first five* of those politicos' Departures presence.
LA River:
Every day should be Park(ing) Day.
Chinatown:
Many memorials can be found throughout Los Angeles, each with a unique story and history.
Chinatown:
Recent wave of Chinese immigrants have dramatically changed the role of Chinatown as a neighborhood and a cultural center.
Chinatown:
The post-war years brought an entirely new set of paradigms for Chinese in America, a shift reflected in the community of Chinatown in Los Angeles.
Chinatown:
New Chinatown was a fresh start for the Chinese, but it was like much like the rest of Los Angeles: a smart business proposition and a media campaign, albeit one designed, controlled and envision by Chinese Americans.
Chinatown:
The first chapter in the history of L.A.'s Chinatown - and the first chapter of our new installment of Departures - takes us back to the first wave of immigration from China to the Pacific coast of the United States.
Chinatown:
For decades, two late, great, robust institutions were errantly maligned. Both were considered extinct. Both were large and said to have lumbered. Both were thought to have failed to coexist with rivals and then given way to smarter replacements that would become ubiquitous.
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