Defying All Odds: The New Generation of Latinx Doctors

Sep. 28, 2016 / By Lightmary Flores
Tags: Doctors, Health, Latinos

Only four percent of California’s doctors are Latino. From that underrepresented group we have profiled three doctors who are hoping to inspire others like them to succeed and give back to their communities.

Documentary Screening Opens Discussion on Long Beach’s AAPI Community

Sep. 26, 2016 / By Elizabeth Campos
Tags: AAPI, Asian Americans, deportations, Immigrants, pacific islanders, Refugees, Restorative Justice

The film "Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story" prompts discussion on the issues affecting Long Beach's Asian American and Pacific Islanders, including schools, deportations, and refugee trauma.

“Let Us Stay” — Tenants and Activists March Downtown for Renter’s Day

Sep. 24, 2016 / By Rudy Cardoso-Peraza
Tags: gentrification, Housing, rent, tenants

Tenants and activists marched across downtown, occasionally stopping to chant in front of 'slumlord' properties for Thursday's National Renter’s Day of Action.

With DACA, CSULB Dreamer Returns from Mexico and with More Doors Open

Sep. 22, 2016 / By Jessica Salgado
Tags: csulb, Daca, Immigration, Mexico

We update our profile of Jose Salazar, a former CSULB student body president and Dreamer who just returned from an emotional trip back home to Mexico.

CSULB Junior Takes On Islamophobia Before United Nations

Sep. 15, 2016 / By Ben Novotny
Tags: islamophobia, muslim, UN, United Nations

Growing Islamophobia inspired CSULB student Yasmeen Azam to jump at the chance to speak at the United Nations and go off-script to speak from the heart.