Is "Zoot Suit Riot" one of your favorite songs? Are the tunes of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in heavy rotation on your CD changer? Do you rush off to swing-dance lessons after leaving the office? No ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Vividly capturing the moment when tensions boiled over and the city erupted into some of the worst violence in its history, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "Zoot Suit Riots" features evocative archival ...

The Los Angeles City Council issued an apology for the Zoot Suit Riots that took place in 1943 and called for unity.

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 ...

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

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.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday formally condemned one of the "most shameful moments" in history — the racial turmoil that erupted 80 years and became known as The Zoot Suit ...