Marisa Martinez, Community News Digital Editor
• November 30, 2020
My husband and I are planners. He’s an engineer and I’m a journalist. We analyze situations far before making a definitive decision.
We decided that we wouldn't get married until we were sustainable....
I’ve never felt as carefree as I did when I was a kid.
I loved getting the latest video games, watching Saturday morning cartoons with my sister, collecting Pokemon cards and even just finishing my...
When I was 9 years old, my mom dropped a bombshell on me.
She told me that our family would be moving from Los Angeles County to Bakersfield.
I had grown up with nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles...
Who knew that just three words could change your life?
It was February of 2014 and I was a sophomore in high school. My parents, brother and I had just finished eating dinner and we were all sitting...
Rosio Flores, Community News Reporter
• December 4, 2019
“I live near USC.”
For years, this was my standard response when someone asked where I lived.
I had been conditioned to avoid naming my neighborhood: South Central Los Angeles.
That’s because...
Oscar Hernandez, my dad, was a “corn man.”
Street vending was his only job since he immigrated to the United States in February 2004. Every day, he’d wake up at 5 a.m. to get the best corn at...
To this day, Yamileth Esmeralda Ramos Zavala cannot eat burritos and the smell of chicken makes her gag.
That’s because for one month and 10 days, during her 3,000-mile journey to the United States...
As a child growing up in Michoacan, Mexico, I had taken my first footsteps on the small rural ranch where I lived, overlooking hills in the distance and a dam nearby that looked more like a lake. I would...
Not all students who have used Cal State LA’s food pantry want to admit that they have.
But I will.
That’s because I want to raise awareness about it -- and encourage other students like me to...
