Monthly Archives: January 2013

Citizen Children Experience Trauma After Separation from Immigrant Parents

Jan. 14, 2013 / By
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El Nuevo Sol, News Report, Rocio Romero, Posted: Jan 13, 2013

U.S.-born María Vasques was just six years old when her mother Edith Barrios kissed her goodbye...

Long Beach Envisions Peace Through MLK

Jan. 13, 2013 / By
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When Virgia Wade was living in Long Beach in the 1970s and 80s, she never saw blacks and Latinos together anywhere and the police freely beat and arrested young people on their way home from school...

Young and Pregnant in Long Beach: A Resource Guide

Jan. 11, 2013 / By
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Pregnancy can be an exciting, joy-filled time in a young woman’s life. It can also be scary and challenging, especially for first-time, young and low-income mothers...

North Long Beach Residents Struggle to Find Healthy Food

Jan. 10, 2013 / By
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Text By CSULB Reporter Candace Manriquez, Video by CSULB Reporters Kim Norlund and Julian Cabrera

In any given direction from where Griselda Florinda Gomez lives on the west side of North Long Beach, there is a major grocery store within two miles...

Global Aging: Engine for Growth–or Fiscal Nightmare?

Jan. 9, 2013 / By
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Reporting on Health/New America Media, News Analysis, Eileen Beal, Posted: Jan 09, 2013

Photo: Nile Sprague/HelpAge International 

SAN DIEGO–Keeping older people healthy so they can be independent and productive well into their 70s – and even 80s – isn’t just a medical challenge, it’s also an economic challenge, said Michael W...

Appealing Health Plan Decisions

Jan. 6, 2013 / By
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The Affordable Care Act ensures your right to appeal health insurance plan decisions–to ask that your plan reconsider its decision to deny payment for a service or treatment...

Wrigley Station Walk Event

Jan. 6, 2013 / By
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On Saturday, January 12 at 8:30 a.m., Walk Long Beach, in partnership with City Fabrick and the YMCA of Greater Long Beach, will be conducting a walk event...

6th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Maker Award

Jan. 6, 2013 / By
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Sixth District Councilman Dee Andrews and the Peace Week Committee are pleased to announce the Long Beach 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr...

‘Django Unchained’: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Jan. 6, 2013 / By
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following two film reviews offer competing perspectives on Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” a movie about a former slave who sets out to free his wife from bondage and exact revenge on a sadistic Mississippi slave owner...

Oakland School Closures Prompt Exodus of Younger Teachers

Jan. 6, 2013 / By
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Oakland Local/New America Media, News Report, Jennifer Inez Ward, Posted: Jan 04, 2013
OAKLAND, Calif...

Fear of Deportation Takes its Toll on LB Immigrants

Jan. 6, 2013 / By
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Long Beach residents Joel H. and Rigoberto M. are undocumented fathers with children in the United States, and in their homelands of Honduras and Mexico...

A Death Retold: Q&A with Filmmaker Ryan Coogler

Jan. 3, 2013 / By
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Question & Answer, Lani Conway, New America Media

Editor’s Note: At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, 26-year-old filmmaker Ryan Coogler makes his feature debut with “Fruitvale,” a drama inspired by the real-life killing of Oscar Grant by Bay Area Rapid Transit police on New Year’s Day, 2009...