Category: Featured
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Preview: SD Latino Film Festival To Highlight Chicano Voices for First Time
Each year, the festival focuses on filmmakers from a single country abroad. But a lack of Latino faces on American television and movie screens spurred festival organizers to focus their lens closer to home this time. With Latinos making up the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, their stories are wide-ranging and vital to understanding…
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Lowrider Festival Aims to Prevent, End Gang Membership
By Brian Myers Lowriders packed into the small parking lot of the Mid-City Police Substation March 1. Volunteers from car clubs, church groups, law enforcement offices, community groups and nonprofits came together there for the inaugural meeting of the 2012 San Diego Lowrider Gospel Fest. Leading the congregation was Richard “Cisco” Mendez, the evangelist counselor…
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Police Response Times Increasing
How San Diego reports the Police Department’s performance to the public today is substantially simpler than it was two decades ago. The city’s annual budget used to measure neighborhood involvement, community satisfaction and many other metrics of a police officer’s job. Today, just two metrics remain: crime rates and response times. When the mayor and…
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More Latinos Get College Degrees, But Education Gap Widens
By Adrian Florido For the first time ever, the number of U.S. adults with bachelor’s degrees has surpassed 30 percent. But new data shows the higher education gap between Latinos and other ethnic groups is getting wider. In 2001, 11 percent of all U.S. Latinos over the age of 25 had bachelor’s degrees. By last year, that…
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City Heights Youth Activist Heads to Lady Gaga Foundation Launch
By Kyla Calvert Pop icon Lady Gaga is launching her Born This Way Foundation in Boston this week and Mark Tran, a San Diego organizer, will be on hand as one of California’s 18 young adult delegates. Lady Gaga is partnering with The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, the John D.…