Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during ...

Confessed Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi sits on the witness stand on June 23, 1982 in Los Angeles, California ; Veronica Compton. The Hillside Stranglers terrorized the Los Angeles County area ...

After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

TAMPA, Fla. — There is a long, long list of famous athletes, music artists and entertainers who grew up in one of Los Angeles County’s oldest cities surrounded by crime, drug dealers and gang wars.

Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during the 1950s and 1960s, speaks at Color Compton on Aug. 24, 2024.