Los Angeles is losing the family-run restaurants that carry its cultural stories. If Gen Z wants to protect the city’s identity, we need to support the places that keep those traditions alive.
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Opinion: Poetry opens pathways in Get Lit’s Classic Slam
Poetry isn’t a just personal thing. When spoken out loud to others, it can create powerful connections.
L.A.’s newest project? A youth development department
For seven years, L.A. youth organizations have pushed for the creation of a youth development department within the city. They’ve met with city council members and organized rallies with students across the county. Now, it’s finally happening. After months of...
Civic Youth: Free summer program at City Hall
Are you between the age of 14 and 24 and want to make a positive difference and empower your community? Look no further! The City of Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Empowerment is excited to offer a leadership program designed for youth and young adults aged...
Immigration & Ngorn Por
My grandmother, Ngorn Por, has a love for food; not just the final product, but how it’s made step by step. She learned how to cook from her mother way back in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cooking with my grandmother is something I enjoy doing, and as I tell my grandmother's...
Immigration & racial stereotypes
What comes to mind when you hear the word 'immigrant'? For most people, it is a Mexican individual. Rarely do people think of the Dutch that come from the Netherlands. Here at Los Angeles River School, two students give their input into the adversity they have dealt...
Poem: City poet
I wish there was less ignorant drivers in East L.A., I want a city with more MMA gyms around East L.A. This city kept all my memories in East L.A. I remember seeing all the race cars in East L.A. I heard the dodge with 15 pounds of boost soar through Gage street in...
Rockhaven: California’s Feminist Sanitarium, a photo essay
The history of California is fraught with unsaid tragedies. The raven, glamorous mythology of Old Hollywood is enticing, but it overshadows the consequences and perils of such a fame-oriented society. In Montrose, deep in the La Crescenta Valley, there is a place...
L.A. County formally replaces Columbus Day
Each year in the Americas, the second Monday in October is named the Columbus Day holiday, a chance to celebrate Christopher Columbus’s initial arrival to the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. However, on Aug. 30, the Los Angeles City Council voted to join a new movement to...
The importance of youth in neighborhood councils
This weekend I got the amazing opportunity to give a speech in front of 850-plus Neighborhood Council Participants, city officials such as council members Mayor Eric Garcetti and LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas. It was such an honor to know that they all...