Voting Matters 2022!
Why Vote in ’22? With the onslaught of the election season bearing down on the country the refrain to make sure that one exercises…
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Juneteenth Celebration | Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA
The Leimert Park Juneteenth celebration is essentially a large family reunion to bring the Black community of LA together. It is designed to give back to Black owned businesses within the south Los Angeles area exposure, and to create awareness of the Black creative community in Leimert Park.
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Series | Social Justice Tourism – Ballin’ on a Budget… Provence
I have traveled through many nations, including this trip into France, that had colonized the world. And not once had I felt–Black. Or at least the sensation of how traveling while Black in America has conditioned me to feel. Black people, are constantly navigating that.
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Swaying Grasses | A Poem by Georgia Sanders
Eating plastic food from a plastic plate Looking for swaying grasses in memories of the sea Forces pulling – sorrow-drenched knowing …
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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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Pasadena Chalk Festival ‘22 | Building Community One Mural at a Time
Pasadena Chalk Festival ‘22: How a Piece of Chalk is Able to Create Extraordinary Art and Build Community One Mural at a Time! Imagine…
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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.
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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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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People of Note: Andre Henry – Musician, Author, Activist
While the events discussed in “All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep” were playing out, Henry wrote his popular song “Playing Hookey” about his frustrations with White Evangelism. As he’s grown as a community activist — helping lead marches in Pasadena and even carrying a boulder around to represent the burden that Black people face in society — he’s processed through his own beliefs about Christianity and the person of Jesus.
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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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