By Mirna Durón El Nuevo Sol In early 2011, Carla Martínez’s path to college after finishing high school looked very challenging. As an undocumented student, she had no access to jobs in the formal economy or any kind…
By Laura Wenus Mission Local One year after police officers shot and killed Amilcar Perez Lopez, who they say was threatening them with a knife, activists are hoping to keep advocacy on his family’s behalf going strong. With public…
By Laura Wenus MissionLocal The Brava Theater was adorned Sunday afternoon with a banner declaring “Amor for Alex” during the screening of a new film examining the fatal police shooting of 28-year-old Alex Nieto in 2014. Supporters of…
By María Leal EL NUEVO SOL As a little girl, growing up in Los Angeles, everything seemed perfect for the most part. I remember that when I was about 6 or 7 years old I would always go on…
By Estephania Baez La Prensa San Diego Balboa Park is one of the most important and emblematic cultural spaces in the United States. With a length of one thousand and two hundred acres, it is also the largest…
By Laura Waxman MissionLocal SAN FRANCISCO — The winner of the “drones for good” category of the first Flying Robot International Film Festival shows Mark Jacobson using humanitarian drones to “end the use of starvation and medical deprivation as weapons…
By Eduardo Rueda La Prensa San Diego The San Ysidro School District on Thursday voted unanimously to declare a local state of emergency to deal with issues related to homelessness among over 1,550 of their students. The Board…
By María González Amarillo La Prensa San Diego On Thursday, November 12, Congresswoman and candidate to Senate Loretta Sanchez met local officials at Border Field State Park. Her goal was to learn about the environmental challenges that this area…
By Alberto Garcia La Prensa San Diego A gala event at the new Cross Border Xpress bi-national terminal in Otay Mesa gave visitors a first peak around the world’s only airport skybridge to cross an international border. Among…
By Laura Wenus Mission Local At 11, 13, and 15 years old, Sarahi Yannacone, Eliseana Hernandez and Ana Diosdado didn’t expect to be releasing a single, let alone star in a visionary music video condemning popular music’s degradation of women….
By Laura Waxmann Mission Local As local musicians, poets, housing advocates and community members joined forces in commemorating one of the Mission District’s most beloved voices this Saturday, Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez stood among his peers before a colorful…
By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego The border region San Diego-Tijuana could well be Ground Zero for the education of migrant children. Whether dealing with children whose parents were deported to Mexico and families now reside in…
By Laura Wenus Mission Local The latest tool to help the homeless? Gift cards. HandUp, a public benefit corportation that helps homeless people pay for things they need by creating an online account for them that donors can contribute…
By Jim Logan Amigos805.com When César Chávez founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW), he did it mostly in Spanish. For more than 30 years, he inspired millions of people —…
Amigos805 VENTURA COUNTY — While September is typically the time to think about the coming fall and back to school, advocates want the public to start thinking about what they can do to combat the ongoing issue of hunger…
By Michael Klam La Prensa San Diego Nobody could ever accuse actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez of pulling punches or holding back on his opinions. He is known for his uncompromising standup comedy and has appeared in over 60…
By Meira Gebel Mission Local Walking on San Carlos between 18th and 19th streets, 76-year-old Jerry Avila points to changes he has seen on the block where he has lived for more than 30 years. For most of that…
By Mimi Pollack La Prensa San Diego Dancing flamenco and giving back to others have been part of Sonya Burton’s life since she was a child. These two passions will come together for one evening at The Abbey…
By Laura Waxmann Mission Local The artist whose mural on LGBT love that has been vandalized at least four times said on Saturday at a community forum that he failed to foresee the impact and called the vandalism an…
By Jose Lara La Prensa San Diego It’s official. Latinos now make up the largest ethnic group in California. They surpassed Whites for the first time since California was part of Mexico. However, the same is not true about…
By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego SAN YSIDRO — Thanks to a strong support network that included her parents and teachers, Julissa Muñiz never thought of dropping out of high school when she became pregnant at the…
By Andrea Estrada Amgios805 The Chicano movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was the largest and most widespread civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican-Americans in U.S. history. But without strong and dedicated leadership, it might not have…
By Mark R. Day La Prensa San Diego The aroma of ceremonial sage brush and the sound of Indian drums and chants mingled with the cool ocean breeze blowing over Mission San Luis Rey recently at the 19th annual…
By Jenny Manrique Mission Local An award-winning Bolivian folkloric dance group — started in a local high school and nurtured in any rehearsal space it could find — celebrates its 15th anniversary this weekend with four programs at the…
By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego The campaign to bring ethnic studies courses to San Diego high schools is one step closer to becoming a reality. On the June 9th San Diego Unified School District governing board…
