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Teatro Visión This month at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, Teatro Visión will present Francisco Jiménez’s acclaimed memoirs of his youth as a child of migrant workers, La Mariposa and Breaking Through, adapted for the stage by Leo Cortez. As the company’s annual youth production, the show stars a cast...
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Este mes en la Plaza de la Herencia Mexicana, Teatro Visión presentará las aclamadas autobiografías de Francisco Jiménez sobre su infancia y juventud como hijo de trabajadores migrantes, La Mariposa y Breaking Through, adaptadas por Leo Cortez. Siendo la producción juvenil anual de la compañía, el elenco consiste de...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters At 47, Ibrahim Mohamed doesn’t fit the typical image of a college intern. When he arrived in the U.S. from Sudan in 2016, he went online to look for a steady job and decided he wanted to be an electrician at a water treatment facility. A...
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California State Library / Pacific Library Partnership SAN MATEO, Calif. – Ahora todos los estudiantes de California en los grados K-12 tienen acceso a tutoría virtual gratuita y ayuda con las tareas gracias a las bibliotecas públicas de California a través del programa HelpNow, el cual es administrado por...
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California State Library / Pacific Library Partnership SAN MATEO, Calif. – All California students in grades K-12 now have access to free online tutoring and homework help offered by California’s public libraries through the HelpNow Program, which is administered by Pacific Library Partnership (PLP), in partnership with the California...
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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services As a worsening opioid epidemic ranks among California’s most challenging crises, the Sierra Health Center is reducing harm through care over criminalization. At a Thursday, January 18 briefing co-hosted by EMS and Sierra Health on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, three leaders of...
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Teatro Visión’s 11th annual Día de los Muertos play, La Muerte Baila by Rebecca Martinez and the Milagro Ensemble, is a heartwarming story about forgiveness, about remembrance, and about choosing how we live our lives, playing October 12-22 at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. The play follows a recently departed...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Last week’s tussles between state officials and a pair of Southern California school boards may have died down, but they’ve thrown a spotlight on deeper tensions over who makes decisions for local schools — a rift that’s likely to grow as the culture wars escalate. Both...
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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services While COVID relief grants have phased down nationwide since the end of the federal health emergency declaration, California has announced a new one. Through June 30, small nonprofits and businesses with 26 to 49 employees in 2021 or 2022, and who paid COVID sick...