Do you remember reading the play, “Zoot Suit” in high school or watching the movie “La Bamba” (1987), based on the life of 1950’s rocker Ritchie Valens, starring Lou Diamond…
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Growing up in poverty in South Central and East Los Angeles, Luis J. Rodriguez says he found himself so emotionally empty that he joined a gang at age 11. He…
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John Fielder, a born and raised New Yorker, has always been a savior of sorts for his community. Before turning 60, he was an emergency medical technician (EMT) for…
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Ellen Young is not one to stay still, or stay quiet. The 62-year-old volunteers as the first, and only, Asian member of the Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and…
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