“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Eazy-E was honored by the city of Compton, California with a street renamed after him. As per ABC7, the 100 block of Auto Drive South is now officially known as “Eazy Street” and runs from ...

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 ...