“The general public doesn’t understand how dehumanizing the system is and how traumatizing it is,” says Chelsie Nicholson co-chair of the Community Action Partners Alliance of Long Beach and the city’s new reentry coordinator.
We’ve seen Long Beach Unified students demand gun control laws, and now they are taking on climate change.
On this episode of “The Word” Jackie Rae sits down with Darnell Hicks and learns what life is like after being wrongfully accused.
Taryn Williams went from Long Beach honors student to robbing a store with a pocket knife. But her life changed in prison, and she wants to make sure others get the opportunities she did.
On today’s podcast, we will sit down with Dirty Prospector Whiskey co-founder Markus Biegel and hear about the lessons he learned from failed businesses and doubt.
What’s it’s like to be a student in the age of school shooters? These Long Beach high schoolers say they felt compelled to demand change.
What can we do with the fears and concerns that are regularly reinforced by events like the murder of George Floyd or the killing of Black shoppers at a supermarket?
Rev. William Moses Summerville says, in a time when politicians are clamoring for the Black vote, he sees most offering nothing more than lip service.
On this episode of “The Word,” CSULB professor Jason Whitehead, who specializes in Supreme Court matters, helps sort out what a post-Roe v. Wade world means for California and Long Beach.
The sisters say they started a group called “Lesbians Are Life” to make sure people in their community had a place to go to learn about resources, and express their frustrations about the lack of acceptance they feel from the heterosexual Black community.
