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Police Investigating Possible Hate Crime After Teenage Syrian Refugee Beaten On Trolley
Detectives are reviewing video footage that corroborates a teenage Syrian refugee’s report of being attacked on a San Diego trolley by a man shouting epithets about the victim’s ethnicity, a police spokesman said Thursday.
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San Diego City Heights Refugee Youth Harvest Plants, Job Skills
A program is giving refugee, immigrant, and low-income youth from City Heights job training by teaching them how to farm. But the real goal is to make them hireable.
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Little Saigon Mural finalizes year-long collaboration
A boat going through the ocean of stories symbolizing the changing identity of the Vietnamese refugee community. That is how artist Shinpei Takeda characterizes the mural he created in San Diego’s Little Saigon District, on Sin Lee Foods parking lot.
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Nonprofits support Hoover students
Hoover High School freshmen find supports to help them tackle the transition into high school, and to apply for college, thanks to Hoover Community Connections.
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Equity Versus Tradition
In my experience, traditional Muslim families tend to have their daughters grow up thinking their main priority in life is cook, clean, caretake, get married and repeat. Young Muslim women are often raised to believe they do not need an education, do not need to go to college, or worry about anything that is a…