Richmond Pulse South Kern Sol The Know Fresno[Translate] JOHNNY FLORES, JR/Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA – According to the Riverside County of Education, only about 53 percent of Coachella Valley Unified School District graduates pursue higher education. Raices Cultura wants to improve these numbers and is taking an important step with its first annual “El Poder de Saber” (The Power of Knowing) Higher Education Conference on March 23 [...]
[Translate] By TONY E. AGUILAR/Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA, Calif. — It’s been nearly two years since the youth journalists of Coachella Unincorporated began covering the Eastern Coachella Valley. The young reporters have since reported on community issues, both up-close and from afar, with some students traveling as far as Boston and Washington, D.C. –- but without a home of [...]
[Translate] COACHELLA, Calif. — This Saturday, November 3, 2012, in partnership with Assemblymember V. Manuel Perez 80th (D-Coachella) and Raices del Valle of Coachella, and with the support of Mayor Eduardo Garcia, Communities for a New California and Mi Familia Vota, Voto Latino Action Fund will host a “Get Out The Vote” rally. The featured speakers will be Pérez, [...]
[Translate] By ALEJANDRA ALARCON/Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA, Calif. – Racies Cultura, a non-profit organization promoting culture and art in the community, revealed the findings of its yearlong Youth-Led Participatory Research Project (YPAR) at the most recent Building Healthy Communities collaborative meeting. Over the course of the project, youth research leaders reached out to the different communities of the Eastern [...]
[Translate] By Johnny Flores, Jr., Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA, Calif. – Eastern Coachella Valley residents will celebrate the Mexican tradition of honoring the dead at Raices Cultura’s Seventh Annual Dia de los Muertos on October 27, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Centro Martin Ortiz. Community members are invited to dress in calavera attire and participate in the calavera community procession, [...]
[Translate] By Brenda Rincon, Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA, Calif. – On a 110-degree afternoon, it is hard to think about November 2. But that is exactly what the Día de los Muertos planning committee has been doing all summer in the air-conditioned lobby of Forest Lawn Funeral Home. Mariachi, Aztec dancers, altars honoring the dead, rosaries, flowers, guest speakers – [...]
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[Translate] Coachella, Calif. — Following standing room-only hearings in Oakland, Los Angeles and Fresno, state legislators will head to the Coachella Valley on June 29 for a final field hearing investigating ways to improve the lives of young men of color in the state. The hearing will take place from 3 to 6 p.m., at Bobby Duke Middle School, 85358 [...]
[Translate] By Alejandra Alarcon Coachella Unincorporated Coachella, Calif. — College of the Desert student Nancy Ramirez hopes to bring about change in her community by doing the thing she loves to do the most – create art. Ramirez knew that she loved to draw since she was six. She looked up to her older brother and made her [...]
[Translate] VIDEO: The Hue Fest 2012 By Santos J. Reyes Coachella Unincorporated Coachella, Calif. — After months of anticipation, young people from throughout the Coachella Valley gathered to express their true colors at the second annual The Hue Music and Arts Festival on Saturday, April 28, at Dateland Park. This youth-led festival showcased a variety of genres in [...]
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