Photo: Poster, circa 1970 By Jasmine Nguyen, Editor-in-Chief One of the three officers who stood silently the night of May 25 in Minneapolis as another officer pressed his knee to the neck of George Floyd for nearly nine minutes, was Tou Thao. Thao is Hmong, a Southeast Asian ethnic group that resides in Vietnam and […]
Category: Perspectives
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My Bout with COVID-19
By Robin Bolton, Opinion Editor The first article I came across this morning was about Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the announcement that all LA county residents can now get free COVID-19 testing at city-run sites. While the announcement is great and comes at a crucial time in the fight against COVID-19, for people […]
Posted inMovies, Theater & TV, Opinion, personal experience
We NEED Better Latinx Representation
By Velia Salazar, Staff Reporter Growing up, there were times I thought I only existed in cartoons. That’s what my TV told me. While there were plenty of white faces on TV representing every facet of life, the only brown-skinned faces I saw were of cartoon characters. While very young, the only Latina I saw […]
Posted inOpinion, Sports
Best Time of My Life
Photo by Jackson Cascio. By Jackson Cascio, Staff Reporter Four years ago I was getting ready to graduate from Redondo Union High School, where I played four years on the basketball team and made some great friends and great memories. But I did not know where my basketball career was going to go from there. […]
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Give Me Liberty, or Give Me COVID
Illustration by Darlene Maes. By Darlene Maes, Staff Reporter The ongoing changes and routines that have come from the spreadable COVID-19 virus has altered our way of what was once everyday things. You have to sterilize yourself and almost dress up as a superhero in order to shop at a grocery store or run errands. […]