After an exhilarating day on the set of ABC’s family sitcom "Speechless," 14-year-old actor Coby Bird returned to his Honeywagon trailer, desperate for some chapstick and some sleep. Bird did a single-episode stint on the first season of the show, just one of several...
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President of the Governing Board of LAUSD Steve Zimmer discusses importance of college readiness
https://youtu.be/PimHiTCbE0A "For years and years and years, this system believed that some kids deserved access to the highest quality of education and that other kids in other communities maybe didn't deserve much," said Steve Zimmer, current President of the...
Education program officers discuss United Ways LAUSD candidate forum
https://youtu.be/vdTKRrBacNo “Right now, students are being denied even the choice to apply to college after they graduate,” Sara Mooney said at the United Way College Readiness Forum on May 6. After months of organizing, education program Officer Mooney and...
Unsung Hero Ernesto Nunez: Bringing street knowledge to school
https://soundcloud.com/user-258580993/unsung-hero-ernesto-nunez-brings-street-knowledge-to-high-school Ernesto Nunez, better known to the students and faculty at CHAMPS Charter High School as “Ernie,” is typically the first face students see when arriving at school...
Thanks, Obama, for joining us in the room where it happened
“Love is love is love is love,” said a passionate, teary-eyed Lin-Manuel Miranda after receiving his Best Score Tony Award for cultural phenomenon "Hamilton." President Obama proved that he agrees with such powerful sentiment many a time over the course of his two...
‘The biggest potluck party in the country’: Gobble Gobble Give brings meals and magic to L.A. homeless
https://youtu.be/xe9YccVw7ZE Under a misty Santa Monica sky, hundreds of Angelenos gathered to spend their Thanksgiving mornings cooking, packaging and delivering food to hungry people on the streets of the city. For 18 years, the non-profit Gobble Gobble Give...
How did ‘the youth’ react to the first presidential debate?
From Hillary Clinton's striking red dress, to her opponent Donald J. Trump's repeated rhetoric, to the passionate prose regarding security and international relations, the whole nation is busy talking and tweeting about Tuesday's presidential debate. But what do those...
13-year-old with Cystic Fibrosis breathes life into successful teen clothing line
Heads turn as GraceRose Bauer walks into her Sherman Oaks studio on a Tuesday afternoon, wearing a colorful floral dress of her own design. “Hi GR!” says the in-house seamstress. The fashion designer smiles...
Young girls in the audio industry are making some noise
“Tell the sound guy to raise her mic,” bellowed the director of the production of Fiddler on the Roof I was touring with. At the time, nothing about this encounter struck me as unusual, until an interview a few months ago, when the audio woman I was interviewing told...