Tyrone Beason is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times who writes about America through the lenses of race and culture. He previously covered the 2020 presidential election. Before joining the paper in 2019, the Kentucky native spent nearly 25 years at the Seattle Times covering the Pacific Northwest. Follow him on Instagram @tyrone_california and Twitter @tyrone_beason.
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Inspired by Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturist fiction, a Sonoma County farmer helps Black Californians connect with nature and learn lessons in climate resilience.
Nov. 16, 2023
A historian in Santa Barbara conducts tours to show that Latinos, who make up more than a third of the city’s population, are central to its existence.
Oct. 11, 2023
Laphonza Butler blazed a new trail by becoming the state’s first out gay person of color to serve as a U.S. senator. But disaffected Black residents of L.A. want her to make change, not just history.
Oct. 7, 2023
Jamaica native Winsome Pendergrass is part of a surge of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean. She supports solidarity among Black Americans, but has been shunned in return.
Sept. 21, 2023
The national debate over immigration has raged for decades but often ignores the lives of actual immigrants.
Sept. 17, 2023
Julia Lee talks about embracing her Asian American identity and being confounded by the state of race relations in America.
July 17, 2023
Angela Mooney D’Arcy of the Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples says Native Americans and other historically oppressed Californians should share in the fight for reparations.
July 11, 2023
NASA astronaut and California native Victor Glover Jr. prepares for his moon shot, but he’s reminded of how far America has to go to fulfill its promise of equality.
May 17, 2023
NASA astronaut and California native Victor Glover Jr. prepares for his moon shot, but he’s reminded of how far America has to go to fulfill its promise of equality.
May 17, 2023
Pomona native Victor Glover Jr.’s selection for NASA’s Artemis II moon mission isn’t just historic. His fellow Black Americans say it will change how the world sees them — and how they see themselves.
April 13, 2023