Sure enough, Zoot Suit Riot is a compilation album, made up of purely the straight swing tracks from the band's first three albums along with four new songs, hastily slapped together after ...

The “Zoot Suit Riot” from the 1997 Cherry Poppin’ Daddies hit refers to the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 — when white American servicemen stationed in Los Angeles declared war on local Mexican ...

The riots ended only after military leaders confined servicemen to their barracks. Although it was evident that the servicemen had been the perpetrators, city leaders debated outlawing the zoot suit.

Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument maker and leader in music technology, and Steve Perry of the veteran Ska band Cherry Poppin' Daddies are making a Zoot Suit music riot.

L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price sits beside a mural depicting Charlotta Bass, owner of the pioneering Black newspaper California Eagle, and victims of the Zoot Suit riots. (Dania Maxwell ...

EBC and The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies present Zoot Suit Riot 7:30 pm Saturday, April 12, and 2 pm Sunday, April 13, at the Hult; $28-$53. Zoot Suit Dance Party to follow at 9:30 pm Saturday, April 12, in ...

The legacy of the Zoot Suit Riots has never really left the consciousness of the Mexican American community.

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 zoot suit has described as such: “A very long jacket, flared at the bottom, with exaggeratedly padded, boxy shoulders, and pegged sleeves.

Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 inspired El Paso artist's garment sculptures, collages in new CAMH exhibit 'Rock of Eye' at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston is Troy Montes Michie's first solo exhibition.

Zoot Suit Riots is a powerful film that explores the complicated racial tensions and the changing social and political landscape that led up to the explosion on LA's streets in the summer of 1943 ...

Zoot Suit Riots is a powerful film that explores the complicated racial tensions and the changing social and political landscape that led up to the explosion on LA's streets in the summer of 1943 ...