Category: Education
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We Are Excellent!
On Saturday, January 26, a new cross academy fellowship, The Brothers of Excellence, established itself on Hoover’s campus. 15 African American students welcomed author, and one of Hoover’s new student teachers, Mr. R. Preston Clark who read and discussed excerpts from his book Vinnie: a love letter. The novel is from a 14 year-old perspective of…
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Four Facts About San Diego’s Black Baseball Pioneer
(From left) Luke Easter, Artie Wilson and Johnny Ritchey integrated the minor-league San Diego Padres / Photo courtesy of collection of William Swank Professional baseball banned black players from America’s pastime until Jackie Robinson broke the “color line” in 1947. That same year, a local black player named Johnny Ritchey made another kind of history…
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Business Enterprise Center Opens in City Heights
Dante Dauz wanted to help young people stay out of gangs and help train them to get jobs. He soon realized that, once students were trained, there were no places for them to work in City Heights. The Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC) Neighborhood Enterprise Center became a vision and a solution. At the…
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City Heights Coffee House To Put 30 Youth On Career Pathway
The nonprofit’s mission is to provide job experience and life skills training to young adults who may have trouble finding employment.
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San Diego Unified To Improve Maintenance Process After Heating System Outage
The changes, detailed in a memo to the school board, come after KPBS reported on a heating system outage at a City Heights school that took more than four weeks to fully fix.