Books
“Pachyderm” from Kevin Young’s “Blue Laws.” Copyright © 2016 by Kevin Young.
Feb. 19, 2016
California
Toni Majoy-Young of Reseda was in the midst of a typical afternoon’s work studying a client’s insurance policy when a phone call brought to life every working parent’s nightmare: The baby-sitter said her child was hurt.
July 11, 1990
Smiling, cooing babies aren’t supposed to fall unconscious and die after parents leave them at the sitter’s.
May 2, 1994
Olympics
Looking back at the journey L.A. track stars Quincy Watts and Kevin Young embarked on their way to winning gold medals in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Aug. 16, 2022
Her testimony occasionally interrupted by tears, Toni Majoy-Young recounted in Van Nuys Superior Court how she frantically drove her unconscious baby son to the hospital just hours after she’d left him at a baby-sitter’s house.
July 12, 1994
To go from the foot of the Watts Towers to the top of the world, Kevin Young had to overcome numerous hurdles.
Jan. 15, 1993
At Turin, Italy, Kevin Young, who had broken Edwin Moses’ 400-meter hurdles record at Barcelona, ended his spectacular season by winning the men’s overall title in the grand prix final in 48.16 seconds.
Sept. 5, 1992
Television
‘Only the Young’ on PBS, a tender look at a trio of teens
July 15, 2013
In the sweet, heartbreaking and highly accomplished “Only the Young,” premiering Monday as part of the PBS documentary series “POV,” twentysomething Cal Arts alumni Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims return to the Santa Clarita Valley to make a film about teenagers in a distressed place and time -- and the pockets of beauty and relief they find there.