Category: News
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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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Little Saigon Welcomes Visitors For Art, Food And Tours
Little Saigon will be welcoming visitors on April 27 to honor San Diego’s Vietnamese American community.
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USC Students Help City Heights With Cultural District Designation
City Heights leaders have been working towards applying for a California Cultural District certification from the California Arts Council.
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Rent Nearly Doubles At One City Heights Apartment Complex
An apartment complex in City Heights last week told residents their rent will increase 75% to $1,875, forcing residents to look for another place to live.
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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…