While this is an interesting article, there are MANY other cultural diversities in Los Angeles. Why is the Hispanic community the only one featured???

Departures was featured in a New York Times article this past Sunday. Read it here: Cybermural: The Web as the Wall

Departures: Boyle Heights is the first in a series. We are currently working on two other installments, one in Watts, the other one in Little Armenia.

Elegant and inspired. Thanks for the excellent work.

Thanks for an interesting and respectful portrait of the people and places of the neighborhood I was born in. However, considering the demographics of Los Angeles and contrary to the first commenter`s opinion, even more coverage to the Chicano/Mexicano communities in LA would be appropriate and just.

I am so happy to know that in spite that this city is critizised for its violence, there are historical stories behind every building , every street and i know for a fact that people have been born and raised here and we proudly call it our home. Thank You KCET for this report it is rarely that someone even mentions Boyle Heihgts for its famous "Homocide Zone' as they call it now.

Wow! That’s great that we have a chance to bring up some memories of this small town and seeing some familiar faces… saludos a Jose Torres! A very whelming person in this town. I grow up in State & Pennsylvania, a two year old lost in gang wars, but move more east. Cesar E. Chavez Ave. and Mott St. 20 years later I’m still here! Supporting my people and loving life!

It's frustrating to read the comment that precedes my own which questions the documentary's focus on the Mexican-American in Boyle Heights. The history of Boyle Heights is a rich one. At one time or another it has been home to wave after wave of immigrants including Japaneese, Jewish, and, yes, immigrants from Mexico. Am I wrong to suggest that everyone wants to feel validated and well represented? If the focus of the documentary had been on the immigration of the Jewish or Japaneese people, which, by the way, are very compelling histories, would people take issue with that as well? At one point in my life I was ashamed that I came from Boyle Heights and confessed only to my Italian heritage and not my Mexican side, but it is that kind of ignorant thinking that keeps people feeling victimized. I am no longer ashamed of my heritage. Instead, I am quite proud to be from such a place as Boyle Heights because of its embracing of immigrants and its magical quality of inspiring such debates as the one I've just stumbled upon.

I WAS BORN IN S.F ,CA BUT RAISED IN THE BEAUTIFUL BOYLE HEIGHTS. THROUGH OUT MY LIFE IVE SEEN MY COMMUNITY GROW OUT A PLACE WHERE ONLY THE POOR LIVED.. . IVE SEEN MY COMMUNITY GROW AS PEOPLE AND THROUGH OUR CULTURE, MUSIC AND NOT TO MENTION FOOD WE HAVE OPENED OTHER CULTURES' TO SEE BEHOND THE NAKED EYE......... THANX KCET! .. ... I QUE VIVA BOYLE HEIGHTS...