Link: A Legendarily Censored Chicana Mural Finds Itself Shielded From View Once Again I don’t understand how this mural is “controversial” or “negative”. There’s nothing…

I went to visit my mother, and she had this old copy of the Nisei Week 1969 program. She was in it!  She, my grandma,…

I’ve been going through the hoard and stumbled on a couple unrelated things that, today, seem related. Gentrification has swept across downtown LA, and it…

If you need to read through a lot of email addresses, try Thunderbird. I’ve had over ten addresses in it, and it works pretty well….

My hard drive is failing, and I’m about to replace it. That means it’s time to check the backups, to make sure they are functional….

I came across this column, and read it, and was moved. I searched for a clipping (shown above) that I was selling, of Kats Kunitsugu…

https://barrioboychik.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/the-anti-nazi-parade-boyle-heights-1938/

Los Angeles is now what we call a “one newspaper town”, but it used to support at least five papers in English.  One of these,…

This is a clipping from the Rafu, and I think it’s around 1952, because it mentions the McCarran Walter Act, which passed in 1952. I…

I found this. I suspect it may have been tossed into the trash and retrieved. Upon reading it, I figured out that it was written…