This is the second installment of our 2-part interview with UCLA artist, graduate student, and total badass Angelica Becerra. If you missed the first part, no worries! You can catch up with our amazing talk with Becerra here. Giovannie: One thing I wanted to ask about: I find it interesting that you’re on Tumblr […]
If you are a Latinx at UCLA, you might have already been in contact with Becerra’s work before her gallery exhibition in Kerckhoff opened. Becerra’s work has not only been used for Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA flyers: she was also an active board member of SJP and pushed for UC Regents to […]
Missed Sandra Cisneros at the Los Angeles Central Library with award winning author Reyna Grande? No worries, La Gente’s got you covered with some of the highlights of the interview and Q&A! In her esteemed and always heartfelt voice, Cisneros opened up about her upbringing in Chicago, the struggles of being a bilingual citizen and […]
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More than 100 Los Angeles and City of Bell residents packed the City of Bell Community Center Wednesday evening to discuss a letter from the Salvation Army proposing to open a 30 day shelter for 137 Central American children. Thousands of children from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala have recently made the dangerous journey from […]
Westwood traffic slowed to a crawl Sunday afternoon as more than a thousand pro-Palestine demonstrators crowded the four corners of the Wilshire/Veteran intersection. The demonstrators rallied against U.S.’s foreign aid to Israel as they continue to illegally occupy Palestinian land. The demonstrators initially chanted and cheered on the sidewalk as traffic-jammed drivers honked in support, […]
It is not rare to find Aztec dancers, the LAPD, ICE, and a swarm of news microphones on the same block in Los Angeles. But on July 7, the streets of Downtown Los Angeles rattle under mid-summer heat as supporters of the Central American children seeking refuge in the U.S. take over the streets for […]