Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during ...

“Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California” (University of Pennsylvania Press), explores the history of Compton, even as the story continues to unfold, and asks how Compton’s ...

Growing up in Compton, David Colbert Jr. always knew he was surrounded by greatness — even if the outside world couldn’t see it yet. He could point to the tennis courts where Venus and Serena Williams ...

After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during the 1950s and 1960s, speaks at Color Compton on Aug. 24, 2024.