It's October 2020 and 14-year-old Kyah made her bed for the night: a blanket folded on the floor in the shape of a mattress. When morning comes, she’ll fold the blanket back up and repeat the process, living out of only what she can fit in a packed bag because “at...
Growing up, we are taught that strangers are dangerous, an idea that holds a double-edged sword. On one hand, we are told to protect ourselves against possible hazards and evils that the world may hold. However, a consequence of this mantra is that we lose sides of...
Long Beach, Calif. is home to both one of the state’s largest LGBTQ populations and The Center, a resource for the queer community and their allies. The Center’s goal is to provide LGBTQ specific services, such as mental health and health care, free HIV/STI...
Danny Park was 9 years old when he walked through one of downtown Los Angeles’s most poverty-ridden communities, Skid Row. His mother and father grabbed his hands and told him “let’s go, walk fast,” seeking to sprint past the scores of homeless people lying on soiled...
As part of a series on the rezoning of Skid Row, The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) held its final showing of the play “The Back Nine” on June 17. The play explores the potential impacts of introducing market-rate housing to the city’s most important...
Have you ever had someone talk bad about something you love or something that means so much to you? Many people are quick to judge an object, place, or person because of something they heard or saw. What some people do not understand is that there are multiple...
“San Bernardino, once a sturdy, middle class ‘All-America City,’ is now bankrupt, the poorest city of its size in California, and a symbol of the nation's worst urban woes,” from "San Bernardino: Broken City" by Joe Mozingo, LA Times. This is how the world saw us....
Eight Shawnee Mission East High School students ventured behind the Family Dollar store at 75th Street and Metcalf Ave. Only one of them, maybe two, had seen what had been built up behind that seemingly innocent, easily ignored strip mall before. Though the area is...
During my time in Nepal, I saw the sun rise over the Himalayas and set over the mountains bordering India. I felt the summer sun and monsoon rain toil with my skin, and I let black smog coat my face just to feel the breeze as we raced through mountain highways. I...
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