Q&A: Police Chief Chris Magnus
EDITOR’S NOTE: In this first installment of what we hope will be an ongoing series of interviews with the Richmond Police Department, The Pulse sat down with Chief Chris...
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Mar
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Mar
Survey: CA Voters Prefer Counseling Over Armed Security at Schools
Report • Antoinette Evans Following the unfortunate tragedy that recently occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School, our nation is yet again faced with answering the question: How can we keep our...
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Feb
Field Poll: Ethnic Voters Support Soda Tax, Obesity Prevention
News Report • Anna Challet, New America Media SAN FRANCISCO -- A majority of California voters support taxing sugar-sweetened beverages if those taxes are used for school nutrition and physical...
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Feb
As Beyoncé Endorses Soda, Youth Warn of the ‘Sugar Zombies’
Press Release • Anna Challet, New America Media Ed. Note: Organized in the fall of 2012, the Soda Sucks anti-advertising campaign, sponsored by New America Media, invited youth from across California...
The Time Is Now: Ethnic Media Call for Immigration Reform in 2013
Editor's Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media (http://www.newamericamedia.org), a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country to bring...
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Jan
Taking Anti-Violence Message From Bay Area Streets to the White House
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a transcript of a conversation that took place on Street Soldiers Radio between Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder and Executive Director of Omega Boys Club of...
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Jan
Urban Tilth’s MLK Day of Service Showcases Richmond’s Green Thumb
News Feature, Edgardo Cervano-Soto Teams of volunteers in white MLK t-shirts pushed wheelbarrows of compost and struck the ground with shovels for Urban Tilth’s 6th Annual MLK Day of National Service...
10
Jan
FCC Says Cost of Prison Phone Calls Too High
FCC Says Cost of Prison Phone Calls Too High Black America Web, News Report, Candace Bagwell Experiencing life while a loved one is imprisoned can strain your emotions and relationships, but...
10
Jan
GO FISH
Park It column by Ned MacKay, East Bay Regional Park District It looks like this is a great time to go fishing in East Bay Regional Park District lakes, and here’s...
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Jan
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Dec
A Death Retold: Q&A with Filmmaker Ryan Coogler
Leer en Español Question & Answer, Lani Conway, New America Media Editor's Note: At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, 26-year-old filmmaker Ryan Coogler makes his feature debut with "Fruitvale," a drama inspired...
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Dec
Newtown Exposes Double Standard Toward Youth Violence
Blog / Commentary by Asani Shakur The Connecticut school shooting is such a tragedy, but I find it ironic because things like this have happened a lot in our community...
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Dec
Thoughts on Gun Violence, in the Wake of Newtown
Blog / Commentary by Yasmine Elsafy The recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut that left 28 people dead -- 20 of them children – has dominated the news...
What Big Soda Didn’t Buy
Op-Ed, Daniel Zingale Big Soda spent big bucks. That's how it defeated ballot measures to create soda taxes in two California towns. In Richmond, in the Bay Area, and in El Monte,...
07
Dec
‘Whose City is This?’: Library Forum Sparks Intergenerational Dialogue on Violence
News Report, Edgardo Cervano-Soto The expansive discussion on issues impacting Richmond youth that took place at last Saturday’s forum hosted by teens at the Richmond Public Library made it clear that...
