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Daniel Hernandez is editor emeritus of LA Taco, serving 2017-2019. He is currently a staff writer for the L.A. Times. He is former Mexico bureau chief for VICE News, and former staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly. Daniel is author of the book &#8220;Down &amp; Delirious in Mexico City.&#8221;

Daniel Hernandez

Featured

Know Your Rights! ~ ICE Is Coming For 140 People in Los Angeles on Sunday [Updated]

News

Video: Ryan Twyman Threw His Car in Reverse Before Deputies Began Shooting

Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; In 2023, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.

Lexis-Olivier Ray

Homelessness

A Life Downsized to a Van on a Street in Echo Park ~ 16,000 People in Vehicles in L.A.

‘It Could Have Been Me,’ Neighbors Say at Apartment Complex Where LASD Shot Unarmed Ryan Twyman

‘They’ve Just Gone Bonkers’: Tenants Welcome Rent-Control Vote in Booming Inglewood

They Warned Us That June Would Get Windy, Hot, and Ready to Burn

Sam Ribakoff is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker from Long Beach, CA.

Samuel Ribakoff

Facing Mass Eviction, Hundreds of Tenants in Chinatown Are Fighting Back in Renters Struggle

Food

Inspired By Nipsey Hussle, An Indie Organic Grocer Is Raising Funds to Help ‘Keep Slauson Fresh’

Rudy Mondragón is a doctoral researcher in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at UCLA.

Rudy Mondragón

Sports

Andy Ruiz is ‘Destroyer’ and Disrupter in Boxing, Fatphobia

Erick Galindo is an award-winning writer, director, and journalist from Southeast L.A. His work spans TV, film, podcasts, and essays that explore the intersection of identity, culture, and chaos in Los Angeles.

Erick Galindo

The Homeless Can Now Hold Onto More Property on the Streets of Skid Row