Posts Tagged as "community"

Hoopa Rez: Ground Zero for Ever-Expanding Meth Economy

May. 29, 2012 / By
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http://vimeo.com/43046624

New America Media/Two Rivers Tribune, Video, Allie Hostler/Video by Jacob Simas,Posted: May 29, 2012

HOOPA, Calif.

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Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition

May. 27, 2012 / By
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Annette Quintero, a community organizer for the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition,
spoke to the Senior Journalism Seminar at CSULB...

Men Making A Change: Journey to the White House Part 1

May. 27, 2012 / By
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Part One of a series of stories from Long Beach Community Action Partnership (LBCAP) profiling the adventure of a group of Long Beach Youth...

VoiceWaves Wants You!

May. 27, 2012 / By
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VoiceWaves, Long Beach’s source of Stories for a Healthy Community, is seeking passionate and engaged Youth, ages 16-24, who want to inspire positive change in our community through the power of storytelling. ..

Huerta Reflects On The Union She Helped Create

May. 26, 2012 / By
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BAKERSFIELD– The United Farm Workers  celebrated its 50th Anniversary at the Rabobank Convention Center on May 18 to May 20...

Is It Time for a Term to Replace ‘Minorities?’

May. 26, 2012 / By
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By Leslie Berestein Rojas

Multi-American

Sometime in July 2010, non-Latino white babies in the United States ceased to be the majority of new births, with children born to black, Latino, Asian and other parents of color accounting for more than 50 percent of children younger than one last year.

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Spring Street Farm Project

May. 23, 2012 / By
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FROM KCET.org

Jesse Frutos is a third-generation farmer in California, tilling the same land in the town of Cypress that his grandfather did.

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CSULB Journalism Project: West Long Beach

May. 22, 2012 / By
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Students from the Journalism and Mass Communications Department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) partnered with New America Media’s youth-led Voicewaves this semester to cover issues in some of the city’s most diverse and economically disadvantaged communities...

Stanford Grad Reflects on Year Since Graduating

May. 18, 2012 / By
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By Edgardo Cervano-Soto

Edgardo Cervano-Soto, 22, is a Richmond and San Pablo raised writer and film-maker...

Obama’s Speech Gives LGBTQ Community Hope

May. 15, 2012 / By
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By ANDRES GARCIA/South Kern Sol

BAKERSFIELD – Local LGBTQ community is left a little uncertain after United States President Barrack Obama announced of his support for same Sex Marriage...

Student Changing Community Through Art

May. 14, 2012 / By
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By Alejandra Alarcon
Coachella Unincorporated

Coachella, Calif. — College of the Desert student Nancy Ramirez hopes to bring about change in her community by doing the thing she loves to do the most – create art...

Join BHC AmeriCorps!

May. 9, 2012 / By
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Get involved in your community, build your resume, engage youth and have fun!

Building Healthy Communities: Long Beach is recruiting 10 AmeriCorps members to serve as mentors within local school sites and after-school programs. ..