Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - LAPD officers scuffle with lgbtq protesters as they try to keep them away from a Parents Rights group demonstration near the downtown LAUSD offices.

Cherry Valley, CA, Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - Mateo Felix shoots pictures of his mother, Rosa as his aunts, Noemi, right, and Mariana take selfies at the 123 Farm Lavender Festival.

Los Angeles, CA, Saturday, October 7, 2023 - Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw experiences a stressful first inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks in game 1 of the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium.

Corcoran, CA, Monday, June 5, 2023 - Farmworker Jose Pineda pauses while tending to a dying pistachio orchard. Days after a nearby levee broke, flooding more than 800 acres of Pistachios owned by Markham Hanna, he was left to salvage a few hundred acres that remain dry. “It’s a disaster,” Hanna said, standing with arms crossed beside rows of inundated pistachio trees. “Huge losses.”The return of Tulare Lake after this year’s major storms has left Hanna and his family with a costly ordeal — and many questions about how they might be able to recover from the loss.“To see everything we worked for going down the drain, it’s very hard,” he said. “We have to think about the future, and where we get funds to rebuild our farm. It’s very difficult.”

Lemoore, CA, Sunday, June 11, 2023 - Helena Jones attends Sunday service at Mt. Olive Baptist church. Helena Jones’ daddy traveled by bus to California from Idabel, Okla., in search of work and a better life, part of a wave of Black farmworkers who migrated to California’s Central Valley in the 1940s to work in the fields.Her family lived in a labor camp, sleeping in milk barns before eventually moving into a shotgun house in Lemoore. By the time she was 4, she had joined her parents in the fields, running ahead of her mother and placing the cotton she picked in neat piles for collection. When she was stung by wasps, her mother spread turpentine on her injury and they pushed on. When she was exhausted, she collapsed on a sack of cotton, worth $3 for every 100 pounds.When the warnings came that flooding would be bad in Lemoore, she placed sandbags around her home. With flood insurance, she knew she could rebuild. But photos of her husband, now deceased, and her late mother’s personal effects, she could not replace. She packed everything in yellow-lid crates, placing them high on her closet shelves. She wanted to be ready.“I just prayed,” Jones said. Because she knew if she did have to leave, there might be no road back.

Corcoran, Lemoore, CA, Monday, June 5, 2023 - Marilyn Nolan, 79, estimates she’s zipped closed about a million ziplock bags in her 40 years as a volunteer at Corcoran Emergency Aid and Thrift store. You can find Marilyn Nolan most days among piles of clothes and toys and food boxes in a warehouse behind Corcoran’s Emergency Aid Thrift Shop. She has run the shop for 40 years, her hands ever in motion, sorting through donated clothes and shoes and household wares, carefully wrapping each item in a plastic bag.

Eagle Pass, Texas, Sunday, September 24, 2023 - A group of Venezuelan migrants set off to cross the Rio Grande late at night from Piedras Negras, Mexico. Glints of orange-tinted light from the Border Patrol installation in Eagle Pass rippled on the water. Generators hummed. A freight train rumbled above on the rust-hued Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge. Spectral figures paced back and forth in the dark.“We want to get this over with,” Garza said. “To move on.”She and the others began to place backpacks and belongings in plastic trash bags to keep them dry.A few of the men took off their jeans and stripped down to shorts. Everyone wondered about the shoe question.“Better go barefoot,” said a figure on the dark shore, not one of the group. “Your sneakers will slip on the rocks. It’s like ice.”Soon, they were off, a procession of individuals holding hands and stepping gingerly in the water. Several stragglers, including a Honduran man on crutches, picked up the rear. The group quickly reached a small island split between the two countries. The narrow stretch provided a respite before stepping into the capricious current on the U.S. side.

Jacumba, CA, Friday, November 24, 2023 - Tatiana Bermudez shelters her daughter, Lucy Maria, 7, from rain and cold as they wait for U.S. Border Patrol to transport them from a makeshift camp.The migrants camped near Jacumba Hot Springs made their way there from multiple countries, including China, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru. They said they came fleeing violence or in search of a new life.

Imperial, CA, Saturday, April 8, 2023 - Former boxer Hector Lizarraga recently retired as a police officer and is now opening a boxing gym at his home in Imperial. Lizarraga was a champion featherweight nicknamed “Papi,” known for his toughness in the ring and a deadly body shot. His professional career, however, didn’t start off well, posting a 5-7-3 losing record before changing managers twice and going on a streak of 31-1-2.That win streak included Lizarraga defeating favored fighter Welcome Ncita of South Africa in 1997 to win the International Boxing Federation’s World Championship in the featherweight division.“People have the wrong idea about boxing,” Lizarraga said. “They think that boxing is dangerous, and people do get hurt, but boxing is more than that. There is discipline and hard work. I was able to follow instructions in the ring and that’s what made me successful.”Lizarraga’s pension is $39,000. And he knows exactly where he will spend that money. This month, he opened a boxing gym in his backyard, featuring a covered 12½-by-12½-foot ring and seven boxing bags.The gym will be geared toward teaching the sport to kids. As a teenager, he could have only dreamed of learning to box using the kind of new equipment he now has throughout his backyard. As a police officer, he thought kids in Imperial County had too little to do and ended up in trouble.“I see boxing as a way of giving them something productive to do,” said Lizarraga, who was inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015. “I’m planning on using it as a platform to give them goals in life. They don’t have to be professional boxers, but they can learn to exercise, learn work ethic and keep their minds occupied.”

Bakersfield, CA, Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - Gonzalo Montellano, 65, is a lightweight with a record of 35-3-2 with 20 knockouts. He is owed $20,000 from the Boxing Pension Fund. Montellano trained and boxed in Los Angeles as a teenager, where he delivered Rolls Royce’s to customers of his manager Vic Weiss. He said his boxing career got off to a rough start when Weiss was found dead, shot twice in the head and left in the truck of his red and white Roll Royce.He said others would promise him the world and leave him hanging. By the time he retired from boxing, he said he could barely stand the sport. “I don’t watch it very much. You’re good until you get in the top 10 and then it’s all politics. That saying ‘it’s not what you know, it’s who you know’ is true for boxing.After boxing, he turned to drinking and gained 130 pounds, he said. He’s lost much of that and now trains boxers in his garage.