It's the story of a real-life murder trial and the so-called Zoot Suit Riots, set amid rampant discrimination in 1940s Los Angeles. A play called "Zoot Suit" was a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s ...

T he Mexican Zoot suit, or Pachuco, was brought into the 21st century last night. The Met Gala 2025's theme of Superfine: Tailoring Black History evoked a range of inspiration from attendees.

Zoot suit pants legs were wide and tapered at the ankles. The noted photographer Gordon Parks captured this image in Daytona Beach, Florida. Gordon Parks / Library of Congress Prints and ...

The closure of Men’s Fashion Center, a fixture for black Washington, represents another shift in the landscape along H Street NE ...

Many Angelenos still embrace zoot suit culture today. But it's important to remember the violence and racism it once sparked. It's Been 80 Years Since The Zoot Suit Riots.

Amid the great and grotesque "isms" battling for primacy in World War II, a curious ideological contest was fought out in America: the epic struggle over the zoot suit. Was the fashion, as singer ...

Nearly 80 years after the infamous Zoot Suit Riots, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to condemn the violent attacks by racist mobs on Latino, African American and ...

The tipping point that fueled the weeklong Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riot was the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder. The so-named Sleepy Lagoon was one of the larger reservoirs outside the city of Los Angeles.

The production of "Zoot Suit" at the Mark Taper Forum blends fact and fiction to tell the story of contentious trail of the Sleepy Lagoon murder. The library has the original story!