Getty Images Colman Domingo arrives to the 2025 Met Gala in a blue robe designed by Valentino. Getty Images Colman Domingo arrives at the 2025 Met Gala wearing a Zoot Suit-inspired Valentino look.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art came alive with tributes to Black history, culture and style as the annual Met Gala got underway Monday evening.

Nowhere was that clearer than 80 years ago this month, when the Zoot Suit Riots erupted in Los Angeles. For about 10 days, beginning on June 3, 1943, White servicemen and civilians terrorized ...

Nearly 80 years after the infamous Zoot Suit Riots, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to condemn the violent attacks by racist mobs on Latino, African American and ...

The Zoot Suit Riots became a dark chapter in the history of the Chicano community, and were commemorated by a Broadway play in the 1970s that became a film starring Edward James Olmos in 1981.

Eighty years ago this month, the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles led to brief unrest in San Diego. The so-called “riots” were a series of ethnically motivated attacks by military personnel and ...

The tipping point that fueled the weeklong Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riot was the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder. The so-named Sleepy Lagoon was one of the larger reservoirs outside the city of Los Angeles.

2025 Met Gala co-chair Colman Domingo wore a blue Valentino robe and earring cuffs to the annual event. Get exclusive details from stylists Wayman + Micah about his fashion history-inspired look here.