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The violence in Los Angeles was explosive in 2002 when crisis intervention expert Jorja Leap ventured into the city's most gang-saturated territories. The stories of the gang members she met are part of her new book, Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Rob LeCheminant and Alex Gilvarry of the Utah-based band L'anarchiste. The band's new album, Giant, is a blend of classical and folk, synthesized and acoustic.

Thomas Jefferson High School in south Los Angeles recently has been the scene of three huge brawls, involving hundreds of black and Latino students and police in riot gear. Racial tensions plague the massive urban high school, which is also faces overcrowding and lack of resources.

On a red-hot August night in 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles exploded with racial frustration. But 40 years after a traffic stop sparked the Watts riots, which claimed 34 lives, little has changed.

John Doe, Exene Cervenka and Dave Alvin of X join Fresh Air to discuss punk's early days. "Anybody could belong to punk that wanted to be there," Cervenka says. "[It] didn't matter how old you were."

Rico Town Manager Mike England has been terminated, effective immediately.Town trustee Barbara Betts says the town board voted 5 to 0 Tuesday night to let…

Jackson stars as a 91-year-old man who reclaims his memory to solve a crime in the new TV series. NPR spoke with the actor about his new Oscar, what it means to be a legend and more.

Standing on the smoking balcony of a hotel overlooking the Austin skyline, L.A. Salami plays "Day To Day (For 6 Days A Week)" for a small crowd just before midnight.

A decade after Los Angeles erupted in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, a four-part NPR series examines how the city has changed -- and how it hasn't. As the LAPD works to remove the tarnish from its image, L.A.'s minority communities are changing in ways that couldn't have been predicted in 1992.

One of the largest obstacles in getting people to bike to work is their fear of getting hit by a car. A new grass-roots project in Los Angeles is helping folks navigate the ins and outs of traffic with community-based riding.