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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

Politics

‘Necesitamos Incluir’ ~ Ranking the Awkward Spanish in the First 2020 Democratic Primary Debate

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

News

News Update: Dodgers to Extend Netting, Dolores Huerta Square Unveiled & Goat Mafia Finds a Home

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Featured

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

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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

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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

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