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A tender re-creation of K-town beauty pageants in 1980s and ’90s L.A.
3 months, 1 week ago

A tender re-creation of K-town beauty pageants in 1980s and ’90s L.A.

LA Times  

This story is part of Image’s September Image Makers issue, celebrating some of the most daring and innovative artists working in fashion today. His latest series, “Miss Koreatown,” dives into the history of beauty pageants in L.A.’s Koreatown. Historically, mixed-race Koreans have been ostracized in Korean culture, and in the U.S. less so, but still, there was this sense that …

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Man charged with extorting karaoke bars, hostesses in Koreatown
1 year, 9 months ago

Man charged with extorting karaoke bars, hostesses in Koreatown

LA Times  

An agent with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control passes a doumi girl while looking for infractions and code violations at Club Skai in Koreatown in Los Angeles. Michael Choi, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, identified Cho in an affidavit as a member of the Grape Street Crips, a predominantly Black gang based in Watts’ Jordan Downs housing …

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Op-Ed: Nury Martinez says out loud the racism and colorism my vibrant Oaxacan community endures
2 years, 2 months ago

Op-Ed: Nury Martinez says out loud the racism and colorism my vibrant Oaxacan community endures

LA Times  

City Councilwoman Nury Martinez, caught on a leaked audio, says she sees a lot of short, dark people in Koreatown. Martinez says she doesn’t know what “village” they are from and referred to them as “tan feos” — “so ugly.” My first reaction to these comments was anger, disbelief and sadness. My Oaxacan family’s history in California dates to the …

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A place to sleep, party and kill: Abandoned L.A. buildings become MS-13 gang ‘destroyers’
3 years, 5 months ago

A place to sleep, party and kill: Abandoned L.A. buildings become MS-13 gang ‘destroyers’

LA Times  

A vacant lot is all that is left of an abandoned apartment building where police say MS-13 gang members killed several people in late 2017 and early 2018. They announced their illicit occupancy in white spray paint on the green canvas stretched across a chain-link fence that had been put up: “MS CLCS.” They were from the Coronado Lil’ Cycos …

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Redefining the Korean experience
4 years, 2 months ago

Redefining the Korean experience

LA Times  

The Korean experience does not fit a template. No one can really hold precedent over you, and that takes time to learn.” Kim Chi As the first Korean American contestant on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Kim Chi wowed audiences and helped shine a spotlight on Korean culture while also uplifting a community of “Seoul queens” in the underground South Korean drag …

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