Monthly Archives: January 2014

LB Musicians Struggle With Venue Shortage

Jan. 11, 2014 / By
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If you live in a big city, like Los Angeles, you could easily become spoiled from the abundance of entertainment that is available to you...

Latin American Community Center of Long Beach

Jan. 9, 2014 / By
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To develop and to empower leadership skills to all families of color in the City of Long Beach...

North Long Beach Library Gets a Makeover This Spring

Jan. 9, 2014 / By

By CSULB Senior Seminar Reporters Jazmin Arreola, Lucas McMaster and Manuel Frausto

[Ed. Note] After years of delay, the new North Long Beach Library is scheduled to start construction in spring of this year...

Life After DACA: One Policy, Different Outcomes

Jan. 9, 2014 / By
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Since President Obama established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in August 2012, more than 400,000 young people have received DACA benefits...

2013 Star: Silvia Paz

Jan. 8, 2014 / By
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Silvia Paz: Working Toward a Safe and Healthy Community

Why Her Star Shone Brightly in 2013

Silvia Paz, the new hub manager of Building Healthy Communities Eastern Coachella Valley (BHC), soared in 2013...

Transforming Richmond, One Park at a Time

Jan. 8, 2014 / By
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Photo Essay • David Meza

Last month, Pogo Park, a nonprofit community effort to improve parks in the Iron Triangle neighborhood, hosted a tour of its project sites in Richmond for park department board members, their families and friends...

Raise Your Voice: How Do You Get Your News?

Jan. 8, 2014 / By
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From the Editor: VoiceWaves with a grant from the Long Beach Community Foundation is conducting a survey into how Long Beach residents get their local news...

Lessons of a Former Bully

Jan. 6, 2014 / By
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We’Ced Youth Media / New America Media, First Person, Diego Sandoval

According to studies by the American Medical Association, more than 3.2 million youths experience “moderate” or “serious” bullying...

Living With Diabetes As A Teen

Jan. 6, 2014 / By
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One week later, the doctor called to break the news that her hunch was indeed correct...

The Peace Builders- Teen Chefs at Cabrillo High

Jan. 6, 2014 / By
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A group of young teen chefs are learning how to eat and make healthy food through the Health Corps program at Cabrillo High School...

Stay or Go? Terminally Ill Undocumented Immigrants Face Dilemma

Jan. 6, 2014 / By
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La Opinion/New America Media, News Feature, Araceli Martinez Ortega

Photo: Palliative care patient Gil García García with his niece Fatima...

New Deadline To Join VoiceWaves!

Jan. 6, 2014 / By
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VoiceWaves teaches journalism and multi-media skills to committed and engaged Long Beach Youth from 16 to 24 years old...