Lynne Thompson is an African American poet who writes about her life experiences. She was born and raised in Los Angeles and started writing in 1995. “I am retired from UCLA where I was the Director of Employee and Labor Relations for 20 years, now I write all the...
In the 180 days we are in school, we follow a set routine: go to school, come home, and engage in extracurricular activities within a two-mile radius of our homes, over and over again. These invisible confines limit our vision of the world. With school over, travel is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LzqcQtvOg4 Olympic Day is an event held all over the world. This year, Olympic Day was hosted at Will Rogers State Beach on June 23. Los Angeles’s Olympic day is a flagship event for the U.S. Olympic committee in the United States....
Since 2007, Rich Arentzen and Tove Ohlander have been running a hand blown glass shop in the heart of the South End Arts District of Burlington, Vt. Take a look at the glass blowers at work, and hear what drew Arentzen to the craft: AO...
Hailing from the heart of Los Angeles, The Buttertones continue to make their mark on the world of rock n’ roll with their unique and blended sound which mixes classic Rock along with influences from the 1950’s and '60s. Take a further look to get to know who The...
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...
Who would have ever expected a girl from East Los Angeles to win an all-expense paid trip to Thailand? Here I am, two weeks back from Thailand with so many things to say. When I left Los Angeles, I only expected to learn about Buddhism. It is impossible to explain the...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaY8GxHi_mE Do you ever watch a video and realize at the end that your jaw had literally dropped at the transitions and special effects of the video? Well, the person behind all of the astonishing elements is a video editor, an...
As of April 29, it has been 100 days since President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office. In early February, I began a three-month video project in which I asked 19 Hoover High School students to express their thoughts on three of President Trump's most...
Greetings from East LA is an art, design, urban planning and community journalism project by 12th grade students at East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy at Esteban Torres High School. The project explores, documents and interprets the value that high school students...
