Pro skate stars and adaptive athletes performed side-by-side on February 22 at the grand opening of the highly anticipated Watts Skate Park in south Los Angeles. Over fifteen years in the making, the ...

Top Dawg Entertainment hosts its 12th annual holiday charity concert in Watts, serving 8,000 attendees and distributing $2 ...

We've said it before and we'll say it again, Super Skate Posse's Givebacks are the coolest thing in skateboarding. If you see one in person, you might just well up with joy, seeing a long line of ...

Arturo Ybarra, known as the founder of the Watts Century Latino Organization and for being tortured by the Mexican government for his college activism before the 1968 Olympics, died last month. He was ...

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Progress can be a touchy subject for black people who came of age in South Los Angeles during the era of the Watts riots. The uprising that started 50 years ago Tuesday exposed rampant disadvantage ...

In the South Los Angeles community of Watts, waitress Latrice Ridgway bounces in and out of the kitchen juggling plates of soul food for mid-morning arrivals while the restaurant's phone rings nonstop ...