The Changing Face of Compton

Twenty-one years ago, the rap group N.W.A. put Compton on the map—depicting a reality of guns, gangs, poverty and rage that made the city of 100,000, just south of Los Angeles, a symbol for blight and crime. But Compton is more complicated than that, and the city has spent the better half of this decade working to purge that hard-core image. A tour through Compton's past and present.




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