People of Note | Aminah “Chef Mimi” Robinson-Briscoe, Founder of the Black Food & Wine Experience
(Chef Mimi has)….created community through the Black Food & Wine Experience, which was held for the fifth time this summer…
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Ball so Hard… Europe
A week of romping through euro countries, many that are geographically or populously smaller than states at home. Trains, planes, and the unwise decision to rent an automobile.
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Take Me Home, Country Roads
This was in May of 2020. The world was only about less than four months into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even for a family of four with just enough space in our home and a reasonably sized backyard…
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Pasadena, CA | A Tale of Two Runners, 2022
The year was 1859 and Charles Dickens was writing about the French Revolution…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens at the beginning of his seminal book A Tale of Two Cities.
Documentary Review | The Reason I Jump
“What do you know about autism?” If someone asked me this question, I would have to answer honestly with, “Not much.” I know that…
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Film Review | Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy
Occasionally there are moments in life when we are jarred out of the complacent routines of our lives and asked existential questions about who we are, what we value and who we care for. This is one of those moments…
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Ukraine | This War – A Poem by Julie Clark
The cruelest of tyrants
Inflicting his insanity
On the vulnerable?
Is there a shred
Of the soul left to appeal to?
To lament and pray for?
He is not the only tyrant
Still alive today
Perhaps, it’s not too late…
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People of Note | My name is Trish, but you can call me TRISHES
My name is Trish, but you can call me TRISHES. That’s how Trish Hosein has introduced her persona for several years, performing across the United States and abroad with her magnetizing melodies, live looping and unfiltered storytelling.
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Documentary Review | Zinzun: A Revolutionary Activist
Michael Zinzun was an activist and community organizer based in Pasadena with a heart for the entire world. His life and legacy is explored…
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Napa Valley, California
At 48, my pallet has evolved from my younger days when the only crushed grapes my friends and I knew were the top-of-the-line wine Carlos Rossi and a motel that would leave the light on. Much has changed with me and Napa as well. Growing up near one of the worlds premier viticulture regions in the world, the epicenter of wine country seemed a world away from my East Bay home in Richmond, California.
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Beginning in Chicago, Part II
Much like baseball, I move station to station. I have to be aware of the pitch-by-pitch situational changes. The analytics of a Wrigley Field encounter and then exploring greater Black Chicago…
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People of Note: Dennis Haywood & the Making of Thorns On The Rose
“This is my community.” Dennis Haywood loves his neighborhood. Though Northwest Pasadena is painted as a shady area by the Pasadena police, Haywood knows…
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