Like the rest of the San Gabriel Valley, El Monte, and South El Monte are now home mostly to people of color. And like the rest of greater Los Angeles, they used to be racially segregated. For a long ...

The Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel on Thursday, Sept. 8th, 2022. The location sustained major damage from a July 2020 fire, but will be open to the public for a service this Friday.

And in places like the San Gabriel Valley, where popular media and academic texts never quite capture the full picture, that shift isn’t just dope. It’s necessary.