Making It In The Film Industry As A Masculine, Queer, Black Woman

Nov. 24, 2015 / By Chelcee Bunkley

"The big question for me is not whether I will become a director. I am committed to that goal. Of more concern is whether I will be able to direct films that can be financed."

Dozens Gather In Long Beach For Transgender Day Of Remembrance

Nov. 23, 2015 / By Michael Lozano
Tags: LGBTQ, transgender

Organizers and transgender youth express why having a Transgender Day of Remembrance in Long Beach was personal for them.

Mayor Garcia’s Economic Roundtable Draws Diverse Audience

Nov. 22, 2015 / By Michelle Siebert
Tags: mayor, workers

Low-wage restaurant workers to nonprofits, from small business owners to city officials were present to discuss raising the minimum wage to $15, enforcement, and sick day benefits.

A Long Beach Muslim’s Response to the Paris Attacks

Nov. 20, 2015 / By VoiceWaves
Tags: muslim

"Knowledge is the catalyst of understanding. It is only through understanding that we will be able to pave a road for peace in the years to come."

Hotel Workers Demand More Protections

Nov. 18, 2015 / By Michelle Siebert
Tags: Hotel Workers, workers

Long Beach hotel workers led a candlelight march Thursday at the local Renaissance Hotel Promenade, asking city leaders to pass legislation to protect hotel workers from excessive workloads and sexual harassment.

Long Beach Surveillance: Uneven Balance of Privacy and Safety?

Nov. 18, 2015 / By CSULB Enterprise Reporters
Tags: Police

Long Beach is one of the 61 cities in California with some form of government or police surveillance. Only three of these cities, however, have public policies regulating police surveillance and Long Beach is not on that list.

Finally, Good News on the School to Prison Pipeline

Nov. 17, 2015 / By New America Media
Tags: school to prison pipeline

Just like school suspensions can lead to youth detention, reducing suspensions can have the opposite effect.

From Sea Turtles To Pollutants: The Evolving Impact of the Haynes Steam Plant

Nov. 16, 2015 / By Branden Raulston
Tags: Air Pollution, Environment, ocean, pollution

How will the upgrade affect Long Beach residents and the surrounding environment?

Green 2.0 Reports Lack of Transparency about Diversity by Major Environmental Funders

Nov. 9, 2015 / By New America Media

For Immediate Release: November 9, 2015
Contact: Erika West, [email protected], (202) 930-6808

WASHINGTON, DC—Green 2.0 announced that one year from their initial call for transparent diversity data – and months after the Presidents of the Bullitt, Ford, Hewlett, Kresge, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Wilburforce Foundations jointly echoed the need for data sharing by environmental funders – a majority of the 40 biggest funders of environmental work declined to share diversity data on their GuideStar profiles...