A Week After a Massacre, Life Goes on in Vegas
More than half the victims of this week’s mass shooting in Las Vegas were from California. Many Southern Californians, especially, have a deep connection to Las Vegas, but in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, there's not a lot of obvious acknowledgment of what happened, with casinos and hotel marquees still ablaze with intensity. What's changed? And what hasn't?
Just Like My Mother: How We Inherit Our Parents’ Traits and Tragedies
For many of us, our worst fear is ending up just like our mom or dad. It’s easy for our parents’ traits and habits to get passed down to us, and the same is true for the tragedies they experienced. Many Vietnamese refugees who fled the war and its aftermath don't like to talk about the circumstances of their escape, the traumas they faced live on in their children.
Years After Tragedy, Fresno’s Hmong Seek Cultural Understanding for Next Generation
About 20 years ago, eight Hmong teenagers in Fresno committed suicide. Their parents were refugees from Laos, and they knew the teen deaths were connected to their past. Second generation Hmong are reclaiming their parents’ history.
Editor of Prison Newspaper Leaves Legacy Behind
California’s journalistic community buried one of its own this week. Arnulfo Garcia was editor-in-chief of the San Quentin News, a newspaper produced, written and edited by inmates. He formed the first and only chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists inside a prison. Just two months after his release from prison, at 65 years old, Garcia died in a car crash near Gilroy. He's remembered for accomplishments reached far beyond the prison newsroom.