Compton’s President Obama mural is one of the more significant Black murals on the West Coast. Painted in 2010 near the town’s city hall, it seeks to inspire a city that often lacks hope.

The Southern California city of Compton has been home to both the famous and the infamous. Tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams grew up there. So did the rapper and actor Ice Cube.

The city of Compton, California, is facing financial trouble. It will run out of operating money September 1 and will have to choose whether to default on bonds or enter bankruptcy.

Top of the list for the fifth year in a row is the City of Compton. San Gabriel also remains in dire financial straits, but dropped from second place in Fiscal Year 2019-20 to third place for FY ...

It started with a popped tire. Daisy De La Rosa, 29, was pulling into the driveway of her Compton home when her tire hit the edge of a pothole and popped. It was just the latest time she had to ...

Southern California is an industrialized megalopolis, but its agricultural history continues in some unlikely places. One of them is the City of Compton, where a few cowboys still ride their horses — ...

California’s City of Compton Gets Its Own Museum “We don’t have to go to Long Beach, or Downtown, or West LA to the Getty,” said artist Anthony Lee Pittman. “We can see art right here.” ...

Douglas Dollarhide represents a significant change in Compton. Dollarhide was the first Black mayor of a city in California. After his election victory in 1969, the once majority White city of ...