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Long Beach to Rename Three Schools
By: Jennifer Rice Epstein, Gazettes Newspaper ~ July 19, 2016 http://www.gazettes.com/news/long-beach-to-rename-three-schools/article_43edd8fe-4dd0-11e6-8af7-234d98574d53.html For some Long Beach children, the new school year also will mean a newly re-named school. The Long Beach Unified ... -
Chasing the Harvest
Written by: Sharon Hong Migrant workers follow the harvest to find jobs. One CSULB student is also hoping her studies will yield a bright future. This is her story. Twenty-year ... -
More Central Americans violence signals another major surge to enter U.S.
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, L.A. Times ~ November 14, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/nation/immigration/la-na-border-stats-20151114-story.html The number of families illegally crossing the southern U.S. border has more than doubled over the same period last fall, ... -
50 years ago, Cesar Chavez led a crusade to unite and empower farmworkers
By MIRIAM PAWEL http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-pawel-chavez-delano-grape-strike-20150916-story.html On a Thursday night 50 years ago, at the height of the table grape harvest in California's Central Valley, hundreds of Mexican American farmworkers crowded expectantly into ...