The Joy of Crossing Paths with Strangers
My brother learned to swim when he was five, in a big pool with lots of other kids splashing for attention. The instructor was a teen-ager, probably, but she would have seemed like an adult. After the lessons, he started seeing her everywhere. Pointing out the car window: there she is! Holding up a photo in the local newspaper: it’s her!
Teaching Students About Racism in America
White historians once taught that Reconstruction and equal legal rights and voting rights for Black people corrupted democracy. Textbooks ignored the Tulsa race massacre and others like it. Few historians write like that anymore. We include all sides of the American story and examine racism and injustice as evolving systems of power as well as manifestations of individual prejudice.
LGBTQ health study announced; variants renamed; hope for ‘All-American summer’
There’s plenty to celebrate this June, as some Pride events will happen in person and inclusive spaces such as lesbian bars are once again opening up. But many in the LGBTQ community, and especially young people and teens, have faced added risks during the pandemic. The full fallout isn’t yet clear, since data on COVID-19 and its consequences in LGBTQ people are scarce, but that may change with the announcement of a new collaboration between five LGBTQ-focused health centers spread across the nation.
FOR THE RECORD and TRANSPARENCY
I grew up in Hemet and care about how it is run. I'm a Vietnam veteran, and have been a resident of Seven Hills (District 4) for 20 years. I have known Mike Madrid, another Seven Hills resident, for over 17 years and supported him in the November election with a $100 donation to his campaign and a few volunteer hours putting up election campaign signs.
Even supposedly liberal California hasn’t changed in the year since George Floyd
At the first event of the day to mourn — well, fume — over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, activist Paula Minor climbed up on the back of a flatbed truck across from L.A. City Hall on Tuesday morning and shouted the obvious. “Changes were promised. A lot of things were said. A lot of things began,” she said, prompting nods from a few dozen protesters blocking 1st Street. “But here in Los Angeles, city and county, change did not occur.” She’s right.
