The Los Angeles Public Library on October 18 opened the "Ara Oshagan: How the Future May Hold" exhibition in Central ...

Gayle Anderson previews the Los Angeles Public Library June Jubilee: A Celebration of Black Excellence in honor of Juneteenth. According to the LAPL, the Third Annual June Jubilee: A Celebration of ...

The year just past was a bleak one for independent media. Every day seemed to bring the announcement of a newspaper being bought out, a media company laying off journalists, an independent press ...

The Los Angeles Public Library seems to have chosen a side in the monthslong beef between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The library's TikTok account posted a playful video that appears to ...

This Wednesday, Dec. 11, the Los Angeles Public Library’s Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the building’s opening, as well as the life and legacy of its namesake ...

Three L.A. public libraries have closed and the National Guard has been deployed following days of escalating, violent protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Three branches of ...

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A library houses books, sure, but can a library actually create them too? That’s just what the Los Angeles Public Library, a storied institution in Southern California for more than 150 years, has ...

Fatalities have been reported after an explosion Friday morning at a military explosives manufacturing plant in Tennessee, officials said. Eighteen people were still unaccounted for Friday afternoon ...

Among the bookshelves at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, Ramón Hernández sits in a cubicle a few days a week, holding hour after hour of consultations with immigrants who have questions ...