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Everything Revolves Around Food
Luca Martinez As a child, Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack would begrudgingly help her mother Vangie and grandmother Jesuista in the kitchen. Cooking Mexican food was a significant element of her Mexican family and their El Paso, Texas home. But unlike her two elders, Marquez-Sharpnack didn’t feel a connection to the food in…
A Restaurant Unlike Any Other
Luca Martinez Nearly 22 years ago, Jose and his wife Antonia Toledo made a gamble.…
The Taste of “Little Thumb”
Luca Martinez As a young girl growing up in La Libertad, a city in El…
Spreading Nicaraguan Culture through a Dream Come True
Luca Martinez | Photos by Aryanna Noroozi You could call it a restaurant founded on…
Brain Injury Survivor Briana Rice: Living with An Invisible Disability
Breanna Reeves | Photos by Aryana Noroozi In December 2021, Briana Rice, 38, was on her way home from work…
Combating Child Poverty
Assemblymember Corey Jackson has introduced two proposals to develop and strengthen the California Youth Childhood Tax Credit (YCTC) in response…
OpEd: Is S.B. City Manager Charles Montoya trying to create a den of smiling face liars?
On January 31, 2024, City Manager Charles Montoya told council members that he had a Letter of Intent from a…
Keeping it Real: When Police Kill Black Boys
Black children continue to be killed by police due to institutional racism and racialized “adultomorphism”, and the Black community is…
First Community Capital Reports Significant Year-End Achievements and Growth for 2023
First Community Capital, a non-profit, CDFI certified by the US Department of the Treasury, has achieved significant financial and operational…
A Hold That Won’t Let Go: A System Lacks Access to Mental Health Resources
Aryana Noroozi Although Jorge Arturo Ruiz, 49, known as Arturo, showed signs of bipolar disorder throughout his life, he wasn’t…
