Category: News

  • World Refugee Day Event Moves To A Changing El Cajon

    A video previews the San Diego Refugee Forum’s World Refugee Day celebration on June 20, 2015. | Courtesy of the San Diego Refugee Forum By Megan Burks El Cajon is quickly becoming San Diego’s new refugee hub, and for the first time the city hosted the region’s annual World Refugee Day celebration Saturday. Since 2001,…

  • San Diego Faith Leaders React to Charleston Shooting

    By Megan Burks San Diego’s faith leaders are taking extra care with their sermons for the weekend following the fatal shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C. Their message isn’t one of pain – or about race, even. Those who spoke with KPBS said the conversation should focus, instead, on how poverty and broken systems…

  • City Heights High School Helps Refugees Become Graduates

    By Matthew Bowler Shmoh Lah was 14 years old when he came to San Diego from a Taiwanese refugee camp. Now, he’s getting ready to graduate from Crawford High School. Lah’s journey has been long. “When I was in the Thailand refugee camp every day, my parents would wake me up at 3 a.m.,” Lah…

  • San Diego to Loosen Tobacco Restrictions, Add E-Cigarette Rules

    By Megan Burks The city of San Diego’s Public Safety Committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a new tobacco ordinance. It would lift a 1,000-foot buffer zone around schools, playgrounds and other youth-oriented facilities that prohibits retailers from selling tobacco products. It would also strike advertising regulations within the buffer zone and a requirement…

  • “We Were Strangers Once, Too”: The Current State of Immigration Reform for Youth in San Diego

    By Kiran Mehta, Beto Soto, Famo Musa, Binti Musa and Karla Flores The YAC Youth Media Team has worked to understand and share the voices and stories of undocumented and unaccompanied minors in the region, as well as to identify resources and stakeholders who are currently working to assist and advocate for this population. What…