The Zoot Suit Riots, a series of violent clashes that erupted in Los Angeles in June 1943, remain a stark reminder of racial tensions, wartime anxieties, and the consequences of systemic ...

A resolution condemning the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, days of violence and attacks against Mexican American community during a ...

The timing could not be better for the revival of Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum: it is the theater’s 50th anniversary season, and the play, commissioned specially for it, had its world premiere on ...

“Zoot Suit,” the landmark 1978 play by Luis Valdez that put the struggles of Mexican Americans front and center, is back where it originated at the Mark Taper Forum in an exhilarating revival that ...

Director Luis Valdez leads Demian Bichir and stars from the original in this dazzling revival of 'Zoot Suit' at the Mark Taper Forum, where it premiered in 1978 before making history as the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Rachelle Baker / For The Times) A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It is copied, amended and ...

Marco Finnegan talks about setting his new YA graphic novel during the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. By Graeme McMillan A new YA graphic novel takes a moment in real world history and turns it into the ...

The zoot suit was the “end to end all ends” for hep cats in the ’40s, until the racially charged 1943 “zoot suit riots” in Los Angeles put the craze on the wane. The suits served as a badge of ...

Cesar Chavez and Luis Valdez with Zoot Suit at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, 1979 (photo courtesy of Kinan Valdez) Rey Cordova as Henry and Gianna DiGregorio Rivera as El Pachuco (photo by ...

A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It is copied, amended and upgraded, embraced by Hollywood actors in search of the fashionable. As it travels the country in the late ...