Category: Featured

  • The Bahati Mamas: Growing Freedom From the Ground Up

    A Civil War broke out in Somalia in 1991 that put the Somali Bantu, an unarmed cultural minority group, in the middle and becoming a target of devastating violence and loss. Several of the Bahati Mamas lost their children and husbands in the conflict. City Heights resident, Khadija Musame, one of the members of Bahati…

  • More Refugee Girls Are College Bound, Flipping the Cultural Script

    Refugee children participate in an after-school tutoring program at the Somali Bantu Association of America in City Heights. The Somali Bantu ethnic minority group came to the United States more recently than Somalis who traveled here in the 1990s. Because they’re still gaining their footing on U.S. soil, their children are at high risk of…

  • Video: Mid-City CAN Gets ‘Happy’

    Community advocates Mid-City CAN danced to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” in the park next to the City Heights Weingart Library on July 1 to celebrate their 25th year and express their happiness of becoming an independent organization. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Questions and responses have been lightly…

  • Mid-City Youth Will Have Their Skate Park

    A City Heights resident skateboards at a June 2013 skate demonstration to rally community support for a skate park. | Photo Credit: Adam Ward, Mid-City CAN By Megan Burks Councilwoman Marti Emerald announced Tuesday the city has received a grant to build skate parks in City Heights and Linda Vista. The nearly $4.5 million comes…

  • Covered California Drops Ball With Non-English Speakers, Report Says

    By Kenny Goldberg The report from the non-profit Greenlining Institute says Covered California deserves praise for enrolling 1.4 million people in new health coverage. But the Institute’s Jordan Medina said the exchange’s website was primarily designed for people who speak English or Spanish. “The other 11 most common spoken languages in the state never had…