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 ...

Abigail Lopez-Byrd and her husband, Marquell Byrd, didn’t really think twice when the opportunity to expand their tiny Compton Art and History Museum came up. They chose to stay right in the city for ...

Compton is most definitely a brand, not only linked to the athletic accomplishments of Venus and Serena Williams, but the urban violence that’s made it into hip hop lyrics, from N.W.A. to Kendrick ...

Abigail Lopez-Byrd and Marquell Byrd, husband and wife, founders of the Compton Art & History Museum and creators of Color Compton. Courtesy of Color Compton. Grammy Award–winning artist DIXSON at The ...

Visit the National Black Doll Museum and the Little Compton Historical Society. The National Black Doll Museum reveals history through an extensive collection of dolls from all over the world. Learn ...

Divine Media Group founder DeMira Pierre is showing us around the city she loves, so much so that she created a festival to break the stigma associated with Compton and bring light to all it has to ...