Half a century ago, in a mostly white neighborhood in Buena Park, there lived a woman who had brown skin and didn’t speak any English. One day, her daughter’s high-school talent-show committee invited ...

In a tiny gymnasium at Foisia Park in Carson, California, an eclectic group of women ranging in age from 14 to 56 line up in rows, ready for instruction at their first siva Samoa (Samoan dance) lesson ...

King Neptune may not have had a lei draped around his neck last week, but it was under his watchful eye that the Polynesian Cultural Festival was held at the Oceanfront’s King Neptune’s Park Aug.