More Displacement & Poor Air: Youth Protest 710 Freeway Expansion

Jul. 24, 2019 / By Luis Sanchez, Sarahi Apaez and Ceferino Martirez
Tags: activism, freeway, Housing, pollution, Youth

Long Beach youth and other 710 freeway communities gathered together in Commerce to protest the expansion of the freeway citing environmental consequences and displacement.

The Road to Youth Justice

Jul. 15, 2019 / By M. Smith, Luis Sanchez, Ceferino Martirez, Carlos Omar, Benyamin Chao, Yesenia Pacheco and Michael Lozano
Tags: Long Beach, reform, Schools Not Prisons, Youth

A former gang member, a youth's strange run-in with the law, a student with A.D.D. kicked out of Wilson, and a public health expert. What can Long Beach learn from its own residents and youth about the road to true youth justice?

Youth Weigh-In: Abortion and Defunding Planned Parenthood

Jul. 3, 2019 / By Crystal Niebla
Tags: abortion, Long Beach, Planned Parenthood, pro-choice, pro-life, women's health, women’s rights

These teens gave their two cent on the ongoing abortion conversation.