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All This Trauma Is Adding Up. How A New Generation Is Finding Ways To Persevere And Find Hope

Students at East Los Angeles College held a vigil this week to honor the victims of a mass shooting in Monterey Park. They're focused on how to convert the trauma into a wake-up call.

A group gathers around a tree in a campus quad holding candles. The trees are uplit as it is evening and a brick column with a large E on it

Food, Shelter, Gas: How Long Beach City College Is Addressing Basic Needs For Students

The college's basic needs services started small in 2019 but is growing rapidly, setting an example for others in Southern California.

Two men and one young woman stand in the canned foods section of a food pantry, all wearing LBCC black sweatshirts and smiling.

How 4 Words Upended A University's Journalism Program, And Stirred A Reckoning Over Race

Anti-Latino slurs were published on the cover of a CSU student newspaper in October. The painful incident led to protests and soul searching at the mostly Latino campus.

Words in a white font, and black highlight that read "Mexican-American, Latinx, Indigenous, Boricua, D.R.E.A.M.E.R, Chicano/A, Hispanic" are placed in a spiral formation leading to four words that are illegible because they're covered by red blocks, as the spiral narrows towards the center the words "unsafe, defeated, mad, racist, and shocked" in red lettering lead to the end of the spiral which is becomes sharp like an arrow and pierces through the gray silhouette of student set against a red newspaper page that reads "Bulletin." The entire illustration is set against a dark gray background.

Jackie Goldberg Chosen As Next LA Unified Board President

Goldberg takes over for Kelly Gonez.

At Holocaust Museum LA, A Timeless Lesson That Schools Don't Always Teach

This museum helps students explore the connections between prejudice, anti-Semitism and the murder of more than six million Jewish people and so many others.

A group of Black and brown students stand with their backs to a glass display case that shows a miniature-scale concentration camp. The students wear red shirts, and are listening to a woman talk in front of large displays of people.

Where Oscar Gomez Died, Students Have Created An Altar And Vigil For The Anniversary Of The Chicano Activist's Death

The altar and the vigil signal a desire to learn more about the activism of students like them nearly 30 years ago.

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Detail of the altar, eagle feathers behind a black and white photo of two young men, one with a black beanie that says Xicano, the other with his fist raised.

UC Student Workers Go On Strike, Citing Living Expenses

Representatives for the student workers union says it’s common for members to pay more than half of their incomes on rent.

A large group of students walks along an outdoor path and carries signs protesting UCLA. In the foreground is a sign that says "strike shift check-in."

A Lot Of California College Students Can Get Free Money For Food. Here's How

State and federal officials have expanded which college students can receive monthly food aid and campuses are doing more to get the word out.

Line drawing of bag filled with groceries such as fruits, vegetables, a bottle of white wine, pasta and canned good. "Get money for food." is on the top left side.

Los Angeles Valley College Installs Monument To The Tribe That Calls Its Land Home

Members of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians gathered at Los Angeles Valley College to speak about the importance of land acknowledgment.

A large group of people stand outside, behind a raised pedestal that has a plaque on top of it. An array of flowers adorn the base of the pedestal.

Los Angeles School Board Promises More Green Space, Shade For More Schools

The logistics remain in the works.

Young children play with tiny hurdles placed between striped lines outlining a racecourse on a blacktop surface as a teacher looks on.

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