Rachel Iribe remembers a young girl staring at her intently during the March for Our Lives rally in Los Angeles on March 20. The child sat atop her father’s shoulders, her head bobbing as the crowds moved through Downtown L.A. The girl’s eyes did not stray while Iribe...
Amidst a political climate increasingly hostile to journalists, PEN America celebrated “free expression and the literary arts” at its LitFest Gala on November 2 in Beverly Hills. The evening honored more than 10 writers for work ranging from poetry to journalism, and...
Brentwood School hosted its first ever Anti-Defamation League Peer Leadership training on Aug. 16-17. The ADL’s Peer Leadership and Peer Training programs have reached over 71 thousand students since 2004. These trainings are designed to “focus on the development of...
49 people were killed on June 12, 2016 at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. In the two years since, approximately 700 people have lost their lives to mass gun violence in the United States. To commemorate the Pulse victims and call upon politicians to enact gun...
“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment,” anthropologist and author Dr. Margaret Mead once said. And yet, last year, President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement, which was designed to hold much of the world accountable for...
Who said the printed word is a dying art form? Thousands of southern California teens flooded Santa Monica High School on Saturday, May 5 to prove them wrong. The atmosphere at the fourth annual YALLWEST Festival for young adult literature was celebratory. Celebrating...
Exiting at Pershing Square, from the Metro, I was encumbered by the electric, inspiring, and empowering atmosphere — all fueled by a need for change. Yet there was still a fear beginning to manifest within me: what if someone brings a gun and opens fire? If a man...
Even in our rapidly changing and fast-paced 24-hour news cycle, President Donald Trump and his administration manage to dominate the news headlines of every news network, website and printed publication. Scarcely a day goes by where this presidency has not been...
It could’ve been me. Or you. I wonder what picture my parents would have sent to the news outlets if I had died instead of Alyssa. Or Scott. Or Martin. Or Nicholas. Or Aaron. Or Jaime. Or Chris. Or Luke. Or Cara. Or Gina. Or Joaquin. Or Alaina. Or Meadow. Or Helena....
2017 has been heralded as a "year of the woman." The year was kicked off by the first annual Women’s March on the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and finished with the momentous #MeToo movement. Brentwood School’s It’s Our Turn: Young Women’s Conference,...
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