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Hundreds Gather for Opening of Jenni Rivera Memorial Park
BY STEPHANIE RIVERA, L.B. POST - JULY 2, 2015 http://lbpost.com/news/2000006496-in-pictures-hundreds-gather-for-opening-of-jenni-rivera-memorial-park Hundreds of fans of the late Banda singer Jenni Rivera gathered in Long Beach Thursday morning to dedicate a park ... -
Border Patrol needs to crack down on internal corruption
A Border Patrol agent along the Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, in November. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times) By BRIAN BENNETTcontact the reporter S. Customs and Border Protection Gil Kerlikowske ... -
Comitiva californiana se reune con equipo de transicion de EPN
Por: Luis Manuel DE LA TEJA Patrocinada por el por el CEC México y la Universidad Estatal de Long Beach, el Prof. Armando Vázquez, fue el anfitrión de la reunión ... -
Immigration reform: 'The California Package'
By Karthick Ramakrishnan, Allan Colbern http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0624-ramakrishnan-state-citizenship-20150624-story.html While the federal government stalls on immigration reform, some states have begun acting on their own. Much attention in the last decade has focused ... -
U.S. Latino Children - A Landscape of Rapid Change
The United States is a relatively young nation, but in this its third century, it is seeing unprecedented change in the makeup of its population - and, particularly, its children. ... -
Orphaned in Mexico, siblings triumph in graduating from SoCal universities
Sophy Amel Peralta and her brother Allen Amel Peralta, left, graduated Saturday from Cal State L.A. and UC Irvine because of help the received from Brian Fonteyn. The siblings plan ... -
Against the odds, chemistry grad finds a path out of poverty
By Nicole Freeling, UC Newsroom ~ Thursday, June 11, 2015 http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/against-odds-chemistry-grad-finds-path-out-poverty By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs ... -
L.A. County's kinder, gentler, totally immoral deportation scheme
A. County ends its partnership with ICE for deporting inmates, replaces it with equally heartless one By TED RALL, l.a. times ~ may 18, 2015 On Tuesday the Los Angeles County ... -
Long Beach professor wants ethnic studies curriculum implemented in local schools
By Nadra Nittle, Long Beach Press Telegram ~ March 29, 2015 http://www.presstelegram.com/social-affairs/20150329/long-beach-professor-wants-ethnic-studies-curriculum-implemented-in-local-schools?source=most_viewed LONG BEACH >> A Chicano studies professor wants local youth to have the same exposure to ethnic studies courses ... -
Dream Success Center Opens For AB540, Undocumented Students
By Shayne Schroeder, Inside CSULB ~ March 16, 2015 http://web.csulb.edu/misc/inside/?p=50497 With the opening of the Dream Success Center at CSULB on March 9, undocumented and AB540 students now have a ...