New diversity-centered independent bookstore Octavia’s Bookshelf opened its doors to the Pasadena community on Saturday, February 18. After profiling owner Nikki High last month, I swung by the bookstore...
On Saturday, January 21, at around 10 p.m., 72-year-old gunman Huu Can Tran shot and killed 11 people and injured several others at a Lunar New Year celebration at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey...
When Nikki High bought her five-year-old son a children’s book called Learning to Swim in Swaziland, it was the first time she’d ever heard of “this tiny little landlocked country of
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“America is a land of laws and not chaos,” President Biden said on January 6, 2023, commemorating the two-year anniversary of the United States Capitol Attack, where supporters of former President...
Protests and demonstrations continue to take place in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Amini died three days after being detained on September 13 for supposedly violating the country’s...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, made her first public appearance on the Supreme Court bench in early October 2022. She was formally welcomed to the court during...
The United States Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade on June 24th, marking the end to the constitutional right to abortion that was upheld for nearly a half-century. A 5-4 vote overturned the...
A handful of candidates are hoping to follow Eric Garcetti, who has served as Mayor of Los Angeles for the past eight years. The five leading candidates running to replace Garcetti include developer Rick...
On May 24, 19 children and two adults were murdered in a school shooting at Robb Elementary located in Uvalde, Texas. The students of Robb Elementary were attending their last week of school before summer...
There’s something very charming about small coffee shops that I can’t put into words and that chains can’t replicate. I totally understand the appeal of chain coffee shops—first of all, they’re...
At 15, Kamila Valieva, a Russian figure skater, made history at the 2022 Beijing Olympics when she became the first woman to land a quad jump or four revolutions in the air at the Olympics. However, her...
After a six-year battle for equal pay and treatment, the U.S. Women’s Soccer team reached a $24 million settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation on Tuesday, February 22. The multimillion-dollar settlement...
