Ryan Reft
KCET-TV SoCal
Washington, DC, United States
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A Tale of Two Commissions: Watts, Rodney King and the Politics of Policing
The Watts Uprising and the 1992 L.A. Rebellion were both fiery chapters in L.A.’s history. Many are asking, “how could history have repeated... → Read More
The Foreclosure Crisis and Its Impact on Today's Housing Market
Nearly a decade later, public policy professionals and academics have worked to unravel the complex factors that led to the 2008 housing crisis and why minorities and women proved particularly vulnerable. → Read More
How Prop 14 Shaped California's Racial Covenants
Fifty years ago, the United States Supreme Court upheld the California Supreme Court decision to overturn the controversial Prop 14 referendum. → Read More
Before Rosie the Riveter: L.A. Women and the First World War
During the First World War, L.A. women laid the foundation for the Rosie the Riveter feminism that followed decades later. → Read More
Forthcoming “People’s Guide” Unpeels Orange County’s History
The book looks beyond popular conceptions of the county, now home to more than 3 million people. → Read More
When Film Noir Reflected An Uneasy America
The developing genre captured the anxieties of a country caught in an era of fascism, fears of nuclear war, and social dislocation. → Read More
Before It Embraced Immigrants, California Championed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The idea of "closing America’s gates" got its start in xenophobic 19th-century California. → Read More
National Security, Racism, Detention: The Relocation of California's Japanese-American Population
The U.S. forcibly relocated nearly 100,000 Californians of Japanese descent, many of them American citizens, during World War II. → Read More
From Obama to Trump and the State of Music
A reflection on music and pop culture during the Obama Administration and the music to come under the Trump administration. → Read More
Segregation in the City of Angels: A 1939 Map of Housing Inequality in L.A.
Endorsed by New Deal-era federal housing policy, "redlining" encouraged housing inequality in U.S. cities. → Read More
The L.A. Architect Who Designed the Shopping Mall – And Came to Regret It
Seventy-five years ago, Victor Gruen arrived in Los Angeles and forever changed our collective shopping experiences. → Read More
Sammy Lee: A Life That Shaped the Currents of California and U.S. History
An Olympic gold medalist diver, Lee (1920-2016) fought housing segregation in California and communism abroad. → Read More
From Pío Pico to #Calexit: California’s Tortured Road from Diversity to Equality
California has long been one of the Americas' most diverse regions – but its diversity has not always implied racial and ethnic equality. → Read More
Charles and Ray Eames: How Wartime L.A. Shaped the Mid-Century Modern Aesthetic
The legendary designers arrived in Los Angeles in July 1941. The city's aerospace and entertainment industries would help them define the mid-century modern look. → Read More
Reagan's 1966 Gubernatorial Campaign Turns 50: California, Conservatism, and Donald Trump
Ronald Reagan won his first election a half-century ago. How can California's 1966 gubernatorial race help us understand the 2016 presidential election? → Read More
How Los Angeles Helped Make the U.S. an Evangelical Nation
Celebrity preachers, fundamentalist bible schools, Pentecostalism – these were among the defining features of L.A.'s early-20th-century religious landscape. → Read More
Greenberg to Koufax to Valenzuela: Ethnicity, Identity, and Baseball in "Chasing Dreams"
The exhibition is on display at the Skirball Cultural Center through Oct. 30, 2016. → Read More
Los Angeles Black Worker Center Pushes for Inclusion
The anticipated Crenshaw/LAX Light Rail is just one project that creates job opportunites, despite a long history of discrimination → Read More
Suburban Ideals vs. New Realities: Informal Housing in South Gate
"he idea that movies and stars inspire people from the world's pockets of desperate poverty to undertake treacherous journeys across oceans and borders to this city of immigrants is fatuous," writes UCLA's Eric Avila. "Immigrant understandings of the city rely... → Read More
Suburban Ideals vs. New Realities: Informal Housing in South Gate
"he idea that movies and stars inspire people from the world's pockets of desperate poverty to undertake treacherous journeys across oceans and borders to this city of immigrants is fatuous," writes UCLA's Eric Avila. "Immigrant understandings of the city rely upon the concrete aspects of urban growth: labor markets, employment opportunities, housing availability, and preexisting networks of… → Read More