Cal State LA students speak out over HSI funding cuts jeopardizing retention rates
As a second-year criminal justice major at California State University Los Angeles (CSULA), Gena Rodriguez is at a crossroads as the university grants she depended on were terminated by the Trump Administration. She’s applying for scholarship opportunities through her job at taco bell, hoping to fill the gap.
Voices of the Oct. 18 No Kings Protest
Whether dressed in riot gear or inflatable animal costumes, holding an American or Mexican flag– both even, or holding low-effort or carefully-crafted signs with creative phrases such as “Anti Fascism is so fetch!”, thousands showed up to Downtown Los Angeles’ City Hall for the Oct. 18 No Kings protest.
LMU Theologians on objecting ‘religious exemption’ of NTTF union
With members of Loyola Marymount University’s (LMU) non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) union now in jeopardy of job sustainability, under the “religious exemption” authorized by the administration, LMU Theologians addressed the misrepresentation of Jesuit values and Catholic social teaching that was used to bear the decision.
Founder of Inner City Visions reimagines communities free of gang violence
Behind the broken bones, gunshot and stab wounds, was a young boy that had no concept of life outside street violence. Born into a family of gang members, Alfred Lomas, founder of the gang rehabilitation organization Inner City Visions (ICV), was immersed in a culture that would become a testimony to his fight for the safety of the South Central Los Angeles community.