Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Adolfo's been a reporter at NPR affiliate KPCC since 2000. He's reported on three L.A. mayors, four L.A. Unified superintendents, and covered the LAPD batons and rubber bullets flying at the May, 2007 MacArthur Park immigrant march. In 1994 he co-founded the poetry-performance group The Taco Shop Poets. He continues to wander the sidewalks, streets and freeways of Southern California searching for the right words for the sounds he hears.
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I brought out the casting couch for tamale auditions last week.
Two mistakes recently in L.A.'s venerable Spanish-language La Opinion Twitter feed were too juicy to pass up.
The day after Raul Borbon died the winds, like demons, threw themselves off the peaks of the San Gabriels and wishbone-snapped every tree in their reach.
"I've chosen public transportation and my own two feet as my preferred means of navigating the city."
"Is this what the '60s was like?"
16 years of Ozomatli's out-of-the-nightclub conga lines would not have been were it not for group therapy.
Activists are claiming victories in their effort to shut down what they call the "schools to prison pipeline."
20-foot Chicanos erased themselves and in the same act replaced the various shades of their brown skins with reproductions of iconic and lost East L.A. murals.
Kaliman is the patron saint of adults who've spent part of their childhood in Mexico and now live in the U.S.
Surely on his way to the American Dream Dr Q heard the question, "What part of illegal do you not understand?" He just never bothered to stop and think about it.
"For so many years we have so many English learners who are long term, and they're not kids who were born in Mexico, they're kids who were born here."
Jacky doesn't have a drivers' license. The fear of being deported curves her shoulders into a wide U.