2017-2018 Project Blogs
Sweet and Bitter
I’m leaving my $1400 – a-month two-bedroom rented house, locking my closet door; otherwise, known as my front door, with the leaky roof above it. I lock the two locks on my security door and […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
2017-2018 Project Blogs
Hope Dealers and Spirit Wheelers
The East side of the O in the Wild Wild West, California’s desert and no man’s land. This desert isn’t only craving water but thirsty for so much more. Seminary to Havenscourt is not […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
Love letter to the Fruitvale
Kalil and I were in bed just last night and at about 8 p.m. we heard firecrackers outside our bedroom window. Several rounds of fire crackers-crackle, boom, swoosh. We just laughed hard, what are […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
The Glenview District: The Past. The Present. What Is The Future?
The Glenview District is a neighborhood in East Oakland that is home to some of the city’s highest- rated restaurants and local businesses. It serves as a crown jewel on Park Boulevard that is within […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
My Spiritual Aunt – in English and Spanish
When I was younger, I lost my wallet and turned my house upside down looking for it. I had worked a graveyard shift at work and after resting in the morning, that afternoon I went […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
Sister Strong Never Gave Up
Do you know anyone who is or was a teen mother? Were you a teen mother yourself? Teen pregnancy in the United States ranks higher than any other country. According to the thenationalcampaign.org, “as of […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
Chasing a Dream: The Story of a Vietnam War Refugee
Tam Nguyen’s Story (1959-Current); retold by his daughter Chrystal Nguyen In 1975, the capital of Vietnam fell to the communist Northern Vietnamese Army. In 1978, thousands of Vietnamese citizens began risking their lives to escape […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
She gave us everything
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAA,” my mother screamed! My sister and I, then school age, ran down the steps of our shared house seeing the back of our father as he ran out of the front entry-way. Left, right, […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs
Gloria la unica
“Sigue empujando Chava!” Keep pushing, she yells at her cousin, Chava. Having snuck into the neighbor’s yard, they had taken two juicy watermelons by rolling and pushing them along. The neighbor spots them and yells. […]
2017-2018 Project Blogs