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Young and Homeless … But Dreaming Big

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On Her Own at 17, An Oakland Student Blossoms With Love and Support at School

Destiny Shabazz fell through the cracks when her family lost their home. She wasn't placed in foster care. And she's not emancipated. But in some ways she's thriving due to a few key people at McClymond’s High School in Oakland.

Young, Gay ... and Homeless, But Planning a Future in Genetic Engineering

Tyler Cook spent most of his life in a very conservative pocket of the country, which is tough when you’re gay. When he was 21, he moved to San Francisco from a farm in rural Ohio, but found himself without a roof over his head. Somehow he managed to find a way forward, but he couldn’t have done it alone.

Letter to My California Dreamer: Finding the Gay Mecca

For a series we’re calling “Letter To My California Dreamer,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to write a short letter to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. Here's a letter from Felicia A. Elizondo to “the LGBT Community of the World.”

‘It’s Not a New Story’: Family Separations Open Old Wounds

For some Native Americans, the family separations happening today along the U.S.-Mexico border feel especially personal and familiar. Connie Reitman lives in Sacramento, but she grew up on a Pomo Indian Rancheria in Lake County. She shares her mother’s story of being sent to an Indian “boarding school,” more than 200 miles away from her family.

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