“I believe that if other cities can transform, Compton can do the same,” says Mayor Aja Brown, the 31-year old USC grad who assumed leadership of the city following a landslide election last Jun ...

Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren, and DJ Yella—and formerly Arabian Prince) put the city of Compton in the national consciousness with the release of Straight Outta Compton, a chronicle of violent ...

A block of Auto Drive will be named after him. Good morning. I'm Michel Martin. The city of Compton is honoring legendary rapper Eazy-E today. Eazy, whose real name was Eric Wright, died 28 years ago.

This Friday, a small California city is about to get a whole lot of publicity. Compton, right next to Los Angeles, is the setting for the the film “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about the ...

Throughout the 1990s, the tiny city of Compton, the hub city of Los Angeles county, was synonymous with gun violence and gangsta rappers— a reputation that became so outsized that the city was ...