Since then, it has been periodically reborn through revivals — like one in the late 1970s when Edward James Olmos donned a sleek black suit in Luis Valdez’s “Zoot Suit,” the trenchant ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most shameful events in L.A. history — the Zoot Suit Riots — and that’s gotten me thinking about something my father once told me.

Fox was one among many, from Chicago to Harlem to Memphis, who took credit for inventing the zoot suit—the term came out of African-American slang—but it was actually unbranded and illicit ...

Now: A landmark play about the struggles of Mexican-Americans gets an acclaimed revival, one that speaks to the times we live in. Jeffrey Brown has the story from Los Angeles. And "Zoot Suit," the ...

These youths, one stripped of his clothes and the others badly beaten, were victimized by police officers who scoured the streets of Los Angeles on June 7, 1943, ferreting out and beating zoot ...

OG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens. The nameless protagonist in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man vividly ...

it was a reminder of one of the darkest periods in the city's history. Eighty years ago -- June 3, 1943 -- the Zoot Suit Riots broke out. According to newspaper and historical accounts ...

The 80th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots was commemorated on Saturday ... It escalated into more than a week of clashes between youths on one side, and members of the military, police officers ...