Melanie Bolanos, 9, writes messages on a car window to protest hate crimes committed against Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities ahead of a car caravan in Koreatown on March 19, 2021 in Los Angeles. Asian communities in the U.S. have been shaken by recent racist attacks and a series of shootings at spas in the Atlanta area that left eight people dead, including six Asian women.

Motorists wait in long lines to take a coronavirus test in a parking lot at Dodger Stadium Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, in Los Angeles.

Apprentice jockey Diego Herrera after losing during a claiming race. Several months later, Herrera stepped in as a replacement jockey minutes prior to a Grade 1 race. Herrera won the race, a feat virtually unheard of for an apprentice jockey. At Santa Anita Park on Saturday, October 30, 2021 in Arcadia, Calif.

The sculpture “Forever Marilyn” is sprayed in the middle of the night during installation. The 26 foot tall, 24,000 pound stainless steel and aluminum sculpture is being erected in Palm Springs to promote tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic, reportedly at a cost of $1 million. The sculpture's installation made national news when a group protested and sued the city, saying the location is not appropriate. Others are protesting the statue's pose, saying it over sexualizes Monroe. Due to a record heat wave, with temperatures during the week tying the all time high of 123 degrees, the surface of the statue reached over 150 degrees. The heat is making it impossible for the artists to complete much of the work during the daytime, forcing them to work at night. Saturday, June 19, 2021 in Palm Springs, Calif.

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, CA - September 02: A portrait of Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood, 91, photographed with an 8x10-inch film camera, amongst the oak trees, on the grounds of his Tehama Golf Club, in Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA, in support of his newest film, which he also stars in, “Cry Macho,” Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021.

Los Angeles, CA - July 06: With public pools in most major cities closed, lessons are hard to come by, in particular in neighborhoods of color. Swim teacher Symone Martin holds Melody Taylor, 8, during a lesson at a friends pool in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Taylor and her siblings, Harmony, 10 and Sam,2, have been taking 35-40 minute lessons with Martin for about three weeks. Martin has been teaching swimming for almost six years and finds herself in this pool Monday through Saturday with lessons.

David Grannum posses for portrait on September 25, 2021. Grannum is a dancer and in USC's SCA, and hopes to enter the entertainment industry after graduation. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Vaggelis Makrygiannis swims at USC's Uytengsu Aquatics Center on September 24, 2021. Makrygiannis swam in for the Greek relay team in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Santa Monica College Corsairs freshman Lupe Pulotu (3) yells in excitement as teams line up to announce staters before their game with Citrus College Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, Calif.

A White Lives Matter protester was arrested and charged by Huntington Beach Police officers for fighting with opposing protesters at the Black Lives Matter and White Lives Matter rally held in Huntington Beach, Calif. on March 11, 2021.

Ryan Valliere, left, and Dana McGregor, navigate an inflatable surfboard filled with kids, including Pismo, McGregor’s pet goat, through the surf in San Clemente on Thursday, March 18, 2021.

DipLong Beach Firefighter Paramedic Will Montgomery carries Dip to the owner's car as Firefighter Paramedic Michael Thurston talks to one of the owners Adela Najarro as they transport the dogs to a local veterinarian after the firefighters gave the dogs oxygen after firefighters pulled the two dogs out of a burning apartment In Long Beach Thursday, October 28, 2021.

A child and her father watch penguins swim in their exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach Thursday, June 17, 2021. The facility had to overcome extreme financial hurdles amid the pandemic and was able to reopen when allowed by health officials.

Hollywood, CA - November 10: June Spencer,6, daughter of cinematographer Alice Brooks, right and Sam Spencer, on the red carpet of the 2021 AFI Fest Opening Night Gala Premiere of NetflixÕs, Òtick, tickÉBOOM!,Ó at TCL Chinese Theatre, in Hollywood, CA, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021.

In between events, policemen pose for a picture on the red carpet at the end of the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on July 16, 2021.

Whitney Houston's music video for "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" plays as a dancer wears a face mask while people dance and drink at a bar after midnight early Sunday morning on July 18, 2021 in West Hollywood, California. - Wearing a face mask at indoor public establishments will once again be mandatory in Los Angeles County starting at 11:59pm July 17, 2021 for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people due to a steady increase in Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations, health authorities said.

Diane McClinden, 63, and her dog Frankie, try and stay cool in their trailer in Almar Acres RV Park in Desert Hot Springs on July 26, 2021. “It’ pretty miserable here,” McClinden said on this day where temperatures reached a high of 97 degrees. “I don’t know what the first electric bill will be. I’m scared,” she said. McClinden recently moved into the unit. This is her first summer in Desert Hot Springs and she’s already talking about moving out of the city because of the excessive heat. She spends the day in front of a fan, with a wet towel over her shoulders in the living room of her trailer. She leaves the AC unit on low to keep her energy bill at a minimum.

RIVERSIDE, CA - MARCH 9, 2021: Office Assistant Patricia Uribarre consoles a scared student on the first day back to school after almost one year at Pachappa Elementary on March 9, 2021 in Riverside, California. The school was closed on March 13, 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.The students have been divided into two groups. One group attends in-person learning on Tuesdays and the other on Thursdays. All students will stay in remote learning the other days of the week.

Roger Embrey, 40, walks to a job interview along a deserted portion of Dillon Road in Desert Hot Springs where temperatures reached 107 degrees on July 27, 2021. Embrey, from Palm Springs, took a bus to the nearby city and had to walk a couple of miles through the 107 degree heat to apply for a job as a driver for a company that transports handicapped children. Emery, carrying a cup of hot coffee, believes that drinking a hot beverage in hot weather can help your body stay cool. A few deaths in Desert Hot Springs were caused by excessive heat in 2020.

A firefighter with Alaska's Pioneer Peak Interagency Hotshot Crew carries a chain saw as the Windy Fire burns in the Sequoia National Forest near Johnsondale, California on September 22, 2021.

Homeowner Jose Lamas, right, and his daughter Astrid Covarrubias survey the charred debris left in his burned-out home from the South Fire in Lytle Creek, San Bernardino County, north of Rialto, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021.

A firefighter is lit up by the lights on a bulldozer during the Erbes fire in Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2021.

APRIL 21, 2021. SAN LUIS, ARIZONA. Two Cuban nationals fall to their knees after scaling a gate in the U.S./Mexico border fence at San Luis, Arizona. They and companions behind them squeezed through an existing cut in the barbed wire. They told me the stunt was a spontaneous act of celebration to end their journey from Cuba and through Central America and Mexico. This $-multi-million barrier on the banks of the Colorado River was funded, engineered and built during the Trump Administration - but it sits 100 yards inside Arizona. Scores of people daily trek over the dry river bed and land on U.S. territory. This is the only time in my 42 years of photographing border dynamics where not a single undocumented immigrant attempted to flee capture. Everyone begged to be taken into custody and pleaded for asylum.

Carson, CA - October 25: Life-long Carson resident Brandi Murdock, left, gets emotional while speaking with California state Senator Mark Bradford about the continuing foul odor in the city, following a press conference with Carson Mayor Lula Davis-Holmes, at Carson City Hall, in Carson, CA, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. The Carson City Council urged Los Angeles County and Governor Newsom to each issue a proclamation of emergency.

Howard Eckert, American Legion commander of Post 262 and master of ceremonies for a Memorial Day commemoration ÊMonday, is filled with emotion as he gives the folded American flag to Susan Campbell, widow of the founderÊof the Memorial Day ceremony at Green Acres Memorial Park, Alan Campbell.

Migrants Stranded in Mexico: Migrant camps have swelled to the thousands in the dangerous border towns of Reynosa and Matamoros, Mexico as the extension of the Trump pandemic policy continues to bar many migrants from seeking asylum. They pass the time, not knowing when or if they will ever leave the migrant camps. Children pass the time playing soccer on a rough field across from the home they are staying with 36 other asylum-seekers on December 7, 2021 in Matamoros, Mexico.

MARILYN STORY SUMMARYMarilyn Monroe died nearly 60 years ago in Los Angeles. She would have been 95 this year. Yet, like ripples on a pond, her memory lives on through the people who celebrate her and remember her. Some relate to her quietly, while others have dedicated their lives to keeping her story alive. Many tell stories of how she has inspired them and has gotten them through tough times. Some are captivated by her beauty. Others feel she has been misunderstood and her intelligence underestimated. Others simply enjoy her movies. There are few still living who knew her personally. Her crypt is visited regularly and flowers still arrive nearly daily. There is also the Òbusiness of Marilyn.Ó Marilyn is a tourist draw in Southern California - especially during the COVID-19 pandemic where her likenesses, small and huge, were brought in specifically for the purpose of bringing in tourist dollars. Simply put, there is only one Marilyn, and she is still a magnetic force in Southern Calif. IMAGE CAPTION:Marilyn Monroe helps save the theater during the pandemic. Due the COVID-19 pandemic, many movie theaters are shut down, losing billions of dollars in revenue globally. To make up for lost income, the TCL Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd. closed its famous courtyard to visitors and decided to charge an entry fee to the few tourists who visit. Visitors can no longer freely touch Monroe's handprints in the cement due to virus concerns, but they can now take pictures with her outdoors for a fee. A mannequin of Marilyn Monroe is installed by employee Earl on Thursday, March 11, 2021 in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA - SEPTEMBER 25: Big dogs can’t wait to catch big waves during the Surf City Surf Dog competition on Saturday, September 25, 2021.

The U.S. flag forms a patriotic backdrop for the Orange Community Master Chorale as they perform a selection of songs at the 3rd of July Celebration at Grijalva Park in Orange, California on July 3, 2021. The city’s 3rd of July celebration was restarted this year after being cancelled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The city of Orange always holds its 4th of July celebration on the 3rd.

Motorists wait in long lines to take a coronavirus test in a parking lot at Dodger Stadium Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, in Los Angeles.

Lights - A couple walks through the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden during its annual Lightscape event in Arcadia, California, on Friday Nov. 19, 2021.

CONCOW, CA - JULY 22, 2021: The nomads of Butte County must hide or keep moving —scope out a little wooded draw to park a trailer unnoticed or set up tents deep in the Cascade foothills. The Camp fire displaced roughly 50,000 people in 2018 and many are still living in limbo, off the grid and out of compliance. Camp fire victim and single mother Inez Salinas has to bathe her 5 year old daughter River outside her 20X8 tiny home because she has no running water or electricity on July 22, 2021 in Concow, California.

Counter protesters and supporters of President Donald Trump fight during a protest in Los Angeles, California, on January 6, 2021. - Trump supporters, fueled by his spurious claims of voter fraud, are protesting the expected certification of Joe Biden's White House victory by the US Congress on January 6. Police officers stand guard during a protest to support US President Donald Trump in Los Angeles, California, on January 6, 2021. - Trump supporters, fueled by his spurious claims of voter fraud, are protesting the expected certification of Joe Biden's White House victory by the US Congress on January 6.

FOREVER MARILYNSTORY SUMMARYThe 26 foot tall, 24,000 pound stainless steel and aluminum sculpture ÒForever MarilynÓ was installed in Palm Springs to promote tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic at a reported cost of one million dollars. Some believe she can reverse the slumping tourist industry and save local businesses during the crisis. Aftab Dada, Chairman of PS Resorts, the tourism group who purchased the sculpture said, ÒWe want to make sure the 800 plus businesses in downtown that have suffered will get some relief. We are hoping sheÕll be a magnet and all business will benefit.Ó Some are against the statueÕs placement and others oppose it altogether saying it sexualizes Monroe inappropriately and is misogynistic. The small crew of artisans from the Seward Johnson Atelier in New Jersey had to work round the clock for over a week in order to install the sculpture during the record heat wave in Palm Springs.IMAGE CAPTIONAdam Garey prepares the sculptureÕs legs for installation of the torso. Garey is Supervisor of Fabrication, Metal Chasing, and Installations at the Seward Johnson Atelier. The 26 foot tall, 24,000 pound stainless steel and aluminum sculpture ÒForever MarilynÓ is installed in Palm Springs to promote tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic at a reported cost of one million dollars. Some believe she can reverse the slumping tourist industry and save local businesses during the economic crisis. Created by sculptor Seward Johnson, the statue is based on a photograph by Bernard of Hollywood. Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Palm Springs, Calif.

Lotte Marcus, a Holocaust surviver from Vienna who became a psychologist at the age of 50 plus to help people.

Rapper Ruby Ibarra is photographed on the BART in San Ramon, California on Monday, August 16, 2021. “What makes me want to be a better artist is seeing all these Filipinas killing it right now. We have [weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz], who brought home the [Olympic] gold recently and [rapper] Saweetie, who has her very own McDonald’s meal now. This is a time when so many Pinays are killing it and I’ve gotta represent,” said Ibarra.

Karla Funderburk, owner of Matter Studio and Gallery, is surrounded by hundred of cranes that make up, “A Memorial for COVID-19 Victims,” at her studio in Los Angeles on February 9, 2021. Funderburk has hung tens of thousands of paper cranes to commemorate those who have died from COVID-19. At first she folded them herself but once she realized it would take decades to make enough, she put out a call for people to send them to her. She's collected upward of 60,000 cranes from 45 different states and nine countries.

Wide receiver Tahj Washington #16 of the USC Trojans catches a pass and dives for the first down against the Brigham Young Cougars in the second half of a NCAA football game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 27, 2021.

Servite Catholic High School wide receiver Ethan Scaffidi, center, has an open field to the end zone as teammates Oskar Madrigal, left, and Aden Eckenwiler, right, run with him along the side line yelling encouragement in Santa Ana, California on August 20, 2021.

Simi Valley’s Benjamin Sawyer, left, and Dominic Womack collide near the dugout while chasing a pop fly by Royal High at home on on April 29, 2021.

Mark Magsayo (R) of the Philippines backflips as he celebrates after knocking down Julio Ceja (L) of Mexico during the WBA Featherweight Title Eliminator boxing match at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 21, 2021.

Thousand Oaks’ Charlie Saum holds onto the championship in the dugout following the Lancers’ win over Trabuco Hills during the CIF-SS Division 2 championship at CSU Fullerton on June 19, 2021.

A man takes a selfie as Stadium Super Trucks fly through the air during Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach race weekend in Downtown Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021.

A police officer comforts Soledad Peralta at the scene where her 14-year-old daughter Valentina Orellana-Peralta, killed by a stray bullet fired by an LAPD officer in a shooting at a Burlington store in North Hollywood, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021.

Counter protesters and supporters of President Donald Trump fight during a protest in Los Angeles, California, on January 6, 2021. - Trump supporters, fueled by his spurious claims of voter fraud, are protesting the expected certification of Joe Biden's White House victory by the US Congress on January 6.

Police officers detain a protester after a fight during a protest to support President Donald Trump fight in Los Angeles, California, on January 6, 2021. - Trump supporters, fueled by his spurious claims of voter fraud, are protesting the expected certification of Joe Biden's White House victory by the US Congress on January 6.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 31: Mia Fishel #10, Olivia Athens #14, Reilyn Turner #66, and Marley Canales # 23 of UCLA celebrate after Turner's goal in the second overtime period to win against California Bears at Wallis Annenberg Stadium on October 31, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.