Thousands attended a Long Beach protest earlier this month. Photo By Destiny Jackson By Destiny Jackson “Being black is having a good day and then seeing another black person was killed for no reason. Then you have to think about/talk about that all day. Or don’t and numb yourself. It’s a constant emotional war.” – […]
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Different Neighborhoods Warrant Rubber Bullets or Traffic Control For Protesters
Protesters in Newport Beach chanted the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor as traffic drove by, honking in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Photo by Taylor Helmes By Taylor Helmes, Managing Editor If you’ve been paying any attention to the news lately, there’s a chance you saw a scene that looked like […]
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Stop the Inaction: Get Rid of Anti-Blackness in the Asian American Community and Stand Up
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]