DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Homeboy Industries is known for its work helping former gang members turn their lives around, and a new documentary explores some of those success stories. Miguel Lugo ...

A unique cinema experience comes to Pasadena this week with the launch of the inaugural Docurama film series. Over the course of seven weeks, seven award-winning documentaries will be screened in 20 ...

Homeboy Industries was in trouble. The famed Los Angeles institution founded by Father Gregory Boyle in 1988 to help steer people away from the gang life through job training and counseling was going ...

What is “homeboy culture”? Filmmaker Brandon Loran Maxwell defines it as that of the pachucos, cholos, and lowriders who’ve long been a part of Los Angeles’ fabric. And his documentary American ...

LONG BEACH >> Sergio Romero knew it would be difficult for his mother to accept that the 37-year-old was gay, but it still shocked and hurt him to learn she preferred her son to be an active gang ...

Ever since “Birth of a Nation,” the silent classic that defamed blacks and glorified the Ku Klux Klan, African-Americans have waited for the day black filmmakers would enrich the screen with authentic ...