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Professional punk and Editor-In-Chief for James Beard Award-winning L.A. TACO. Associate Producer for JBA-winning Las Crónicas Del Taco. Former restaurant scout for Jonathan Gold. Co-author of &#8220;Oaxaca: Home Cooking From the Heart of Mexico (2019, Abrams) and &#8220;Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling&#8221; (2023, Abrams).

Javier Cabral

Residents Throw Bags of Soil at DOJ After Battery Plant in Southeast L.A. Is Allowed To Walk Away Without Cleaning up Its Lead Pollution

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Glendale’s Famous Mini Kabob Is Sending Proceeds From Sales This Week to Armenian Aid as Deadly Conflict with Azerbaijan Worsens

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

News

These L.A. Institutions Have Been Accepting Money From an Organization That Has Also Funded ‘Anti-Immigration’ and ‘Extremist Hate Groups’

Bethlehem Mariam is a multimedia journalist. She loves stories that focus on the intersection of pop culture and race.

Beth Mariam

Three Veteran Black Journalists Reflect on Covering Protests, From the L.A. Riots to BLM

I document Los Angeles. I walk the streets religiously trying to expose every alley, avenue, and crack the sidewalks have to offer.

Kemal Cilengir

Photo Essay

‘All Hands on Deck:’ Hundreds of Peaceful Protestors Gather in South L.A. Demanding Justice for Dijon Kizzee (Photo Essay)

Danny Feingold

Did Public Health Chief Barbara Ferrer Fail to Protect L.A.’s Most Vulnerable From COVID-19?

Gabriel Chabrán is a food writer and journalist from Highland Park. He currently lives in Long Beach with his wife Katie, their new baby, and their Russian Blue cat, Mars.

Gab Chabran

Developers Want to Turn the Former Studio of East Hollywood’s Nun-Turned-Godmother of Pop Art Into an Organic Market

Xinlu Liang is a freelancer for L.A. Taco. Originally from the southern city of Guangzhou in China, she specializes in creative writing at Sun Yat-sen University and holds a master’s degree in journalism from USC Annenberg. Her print and digital work have been featured in South China Morning Post, Reuters, Los Angeleno, Ampersand and Los Angeles Times.

Xinlu Liang

‘The Sharp Reek of Gunpowder’ – How Chinese Americans Are Embracing U.S. Gun Culture

Lisa Kwon is a writer born, raised, and currently living in Koreatown. She will talk your ear off about Korean coffee culture and the dreadful effects of Los Angeles’ palm tree fetishism.

Lisa Kwon

Korean Americans for Black Lives – Ktown Organizes and Educates Against Anti-Blackness

Mariah Castañeda is a feisty multimedia journalist and social media editor.

Mariah Castañeda

Are Secret Police Coming to Los Angeles? Is There a Plan to Address Police Brutality Against Protesters? We Asked LAPD Chief Moore: Analysis