Why Our Names Matter
By Asani Shakur What vision was set before you? In African customs and traditions before the Europeans colonized us, our ancestors gave names to their children that held value. Names not only...
05
Feb
01
Feb
Martial Arts School Reborn as Community Center
Photo Essay • David Meza In 1982, Eddie Solis opened Solis Martial Arts in San Pablo, which has over the years provided hundreds of children and families living in the Richmond...
24
Jan
Q&A: Reverend Michael McBride on the Drop in Bay Area Homicides
Interview • Dr. Joseph Marshall, Street Soldiers Radio EDITOR’S NOTE: The following conversation took place on Street Soldiers Radio between Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder and executive director of the San Francisco-based...
14
Jan
What Our Schools Need — A Student’s Eye View
Photo Essay, YouthWire Editor’s Note: California’s recently enacted Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), in effect since July 1, will continue to increase funding for school districts over the next eight years....
07
Jan
Transforming Richmond, One Park at a Time
Photo Essay • David Meza Last month, Pogo Park, a nonprofit community effort to improve parks in the Iron Triangle neighborhood, hosted a tour of its project sites in Richmond for...
31
Dec
Mayor Mourns 2013 Homicide Victims, But Notes Progress
RP Editors At her last Meet With the Mayor session of 2013, on December 20, Mayor Gayle McLaughlin led a moment of reflection to honor the 16 lives lost to homicide...
30
Dec
FACTS ON ETHNIC ELDERS: Study Shows Racial Gap in Pension, Retirement Savings
News Analysis, Paul Kleyman New America Media “Facts on Ethnic Elders” is a monthly column on research findings about ethnic elders present and future. It is supported by a grant...
23
Dec
No Longer Illegal — Good Morning America Drops ‘i-Word’
News Report, Viji Sundaram, New America Media The ABC news show Good Morning America has dropped use of the term “illegal” when describing immigrants in the country who have no documents to establish...
23
Dec
In Richmond, Does Eating Healthy Depend On Where You Live?
Leer en Español by Luis Cubas You know how the saying goes: “You are what you eat.” The problem is, we don’t always have a choice. In many parts of Richmond, organic...
Op-ed: Where’s the ENDA Celebration?
BY DANIEL ZINGALE Four months after the greatest Supreme Court victory for LGBT Americans in history, we won our greatest legislative victory in the United States Senate: passage of the...
14
Nov
Vigil Honors Memory of Fallen Southeast Asian Community Members
Photo Essay, Edgardo Cervano-Soto Gwai Boonkeut wore a white t-shirt, emblazoned with an image of his deceased daughter, Chan Boonkeut, holding a rose. Her murder, he told a group of community...
07
Nov
Nonprofits Adapt to Demographic Shift
News Report, Chanelle Ignant Every Thursday at the West County First 5 center in Richmond, a group of ten to twelve moms gathers to discuss the issues that matter most to...
25
Oct
Racist Remarks Put Obscure Elected Official Under Spotlight
Racist statements about African and Asian Americans made by West County Wastewater District director Leonard Battaglia, who was quoted in a news report, have led some Richmond city officials to...
22
Oct
Why I’ll Practice Safe Texting
Commentary • Poojan Dave From the spoken word, to written letters to dial-up phones, humans have always sought new ways to communicate with one another. Today, it seems that texting is...
