By Adolfo Nodal I am aware that Mayor Eric Garcetti is currently grappling with the Cultural Affairs Department and what…
By Matt Highland, Adjunct Staff Writer, Cal State University Long Beach Graduate Student I routinely receive surveys from various activist…
On the last day of 2009 a man on the street asked me for money. It's not unusual in Long…
This is not a story about Markus Manley, not really. I didn't know him well enough for that, and other…
By LIONEL ROLFE I hate to rain on anyone's parade, but let's get off this thing about poor picked on…
My friend Jericho once told me he preferred racists who called him "nigger" to those who hid (perhaps even from…
Typically Long Beachers have plenty to say—good and bad—about the city we call home. But what impressions does it make…
“To name a rape victim is to guarantee that whenever somebody hears her name, that somebody will picture her in…
Martin Luther King, Jr., who was murdered when I was a week old, was my first hero. The simple righteousness…
While trying to think of a Christmas gift for my dad, I recalled hearing that Michael's Pizzeria, located not far…