Tamika D. Mallory, co-chair of the 2017 Women’s March and co-founder of Until Freedom spoke at a virtual event about her experience in activism and the civil unrest in 2020 after the killing of George Floyd.
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Long Beach Black Health Equity team holds first town hall meeting to address health disparities
The newly established health equity team held its first meeting Thursday to discuss health disparities faced by the Black community in Long Beach.
Face filter dysmorphia is becoming an issue in society
How apps like Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat are worsening the issue of body dysmorphia.
ASI Senate rolls out plan to reopen the campus with COVID-19 restrictions
Associated Students, Inc. Senators discussed which campus buildings can begin to open up starting in early March.
Senate Republicans, you cannot have it both ways
A reflection on Trump’s acquittal and the Senate’s failure to do its job.
MOLAA and Long Beach African American Cultural Center host virtual event about Afro-Latinx experiences
“De colores: A Black and Brown Conversation” featured panelists from the Afro-Latinx community to discuss history and identity as part of the 2021 Afro-Latinx festival. The event aimed to begin building community and understand the experiences of Afro-Latinx members.
Technical theater students at CSULB prove that building work experience can be done at home
Makeup artists, costume designers and set designers are just some of the members of technical theater, who like actors, have had less in-person productions to take part in due to the coronavirus pandemic. But for some CSULB students, the loss brings new lessons.
Black history is history
A reflection on whitewashing in history and the true history of Black Americans
Local activists gather at Ralphs to protest Kroger, call for ‘people over profit’ and demand hazard pay
A crowd of about a dozen local activists gathered in front of a Ralphs location in Long Beach to protest its parent company, Kroger Co., in its decision to refrain from distributing “Hero Pay” to its workers.
A rising scholar: How CSULB alumnus Joseph Valadez transformed his life after decades of struggle
After his post about graduating from Long Beach State went viral, Joseph Valadez proves to be breaking stigmas and believing in himself after decades of struggling with drug use and incarceration.