Category: Featured

  • Teens and Safety Series: Racial Profiling

    By Brian Myers In the fifth video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students say racial profiling by police officers is common in City Heights.  

  • Mobile Stories: Growing Up Bullied

    By Maria Banuelos, Ashlee Brown, Esbeydi Dominguez, Tanea Fanning and Pricilla Yasery The following videos were produced by youth in Mobile Stories, a citizen journalism project by Media Arts Center San Diego and the San Diego Public Library. Participants use only iPhones to film and edit videos about their community. Below, they explore bullying.  

  • Tweet City Heights: State Suspends Some Open Meeting Requirements

    By Megan Burks State Suspends Some Open Meeting Requirements In an effort to save $96 million, state legislators suspended funding for certain provisions of the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law. Under the law, public entities must notify their constituents of meetings 72 hours in advance and disclose decisions made in closed sessions. The…

  • Teens and Safety Series: Undercover Police Officers in Colina Park

    By Brian Myers In the fourth video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students continue to shed light on the broken relationship between mid-city police and area teenagers. Below, they question why undercover police officers are sent to Colina Park, a sprawling neighborhood park near Crawford…

  • Extra Swim Class at YMCA Becomes Gender, Immigrant Issue

    Dr. Adina Batnitzky, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of San Diego, addresses reader comments that call a women-only swim class at the Copley YMCA discrimination and wrongheaded. By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Click here to listen to an extended interview with Adina Batnitzky, Andrea Freeman and Megan…