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  • Hood Highlights: Meet Compton Teacher & Activist Ms.Whang

    I owe a lot of my success to my high school teachers who over time have become family. They always went above and beyond for my classmates and I. Senior year, they were answering my calls late at night helping me fill out my FAFSA application and reviewing my personal statements and recommending/presenting me to…

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  • Meet Lorena Ramirez creator of Healthy Hyna, Plant-Based Food/Wellness Platform

    I am super intrigued by the idea of adopting a plant-based lifestyle someday. I would call myself an on and off again Vegan, I’ll do it for a month get bored and go back to eating animal products. But for the month I am vegan I feel great – energy is up and I feel…

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    Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Comments

  • Decolonize Time – How Our Calendar Upholds Patriarchy.

    It’s Friday the 13th, and there is a Fullmoon! Growing up, I never really understood the association of this day with witches and evil. I wrote a compilation of various bodies knowledge I’ve picked up on my way. Mostly verbal and some written. So check it, I am about to drop some decolonial knowledge on yo ass.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #Guatemala, #Mexico, Aztec, Christain, Decolonize, Maya, Mesoamerica, Moon, Patriarchy, Priest, Witches | Comments

  • Quick Los Angeles getaway on Highway 395!

    Alright y’all. I wrote this blog to serve as a resource/guide for people looking to take a beautiful nature trip on a budget. I loved my journey along Highway 395, and I hope one day to see more black and brown faces in these white-dominated spaces.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #California, Big Pine Creek, Big Pine Lakes, Budget Travels, Camping, Convict Lake, Devils Post Pile, Fossil Fuels, Highway395, Hiker, June Lake, Lundy Canyon, Mobius Arch, Mono Lake, Roadtrip, South Tufa Area, State Natural Reserve, Tioga Lake | Comments

  • Colorism & Anti-Blackness in the Latinx Community

    The issue of colorism and anti-Blackness in the Latinx community is often dismissed or ignored.

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    Categories: Blog, Uncategorized Tags: #AntiBlackness, #BlackBrownUnity, #BlackLivesMatter, #EastLA, #HoodDigest, #Immigration, #Roma, #SouthLA, #WhitePrivilege, #WhiteSupremacy, #YalitzaAparicioMartinez | Comments

  • Guatemala’s Volcano Relief Fund Delivery

    Hood Digest put out a call and our community showed up big time. A huge thank you to CARECEN, Patria Coffee and all of you who responded. Thanks to your generous support, we raised $4,900 for families affected by the volcano.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #California, #CARECEN, #Donations, #Eruption, #Guatemala, #HoodDigest, #LatinAmerica, #NaturalDisaster, #News, #PatriaCoffee, #VolcánDeFuego, #Volcano | Comments

  • I.C.E. Took My Dad: 1st Day of Spring

    I answered. I couldn’t understand anything she was saying. She was frantically screaming and crying. The only thing I could make out was, “I.C.E took dad, I.C.E took dad!”

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #CHIRLA, #DefendDACA, #Deportations, #DetentionCenters, #DonaldTrump, #FOMDD, #FriendsOfMiamiDadeDetainees, #HoodDigest, #ICE, #IllegalSearches, #Immigration, #KromeDetentionCenter, #Saratoga, #StayWoke, #UnaccompaniedMinors | Comments

  • Civil Unrest

    April 29th: The people became fed up. The city went up in flames. Four days it didn’t let up. Tension grew thick. Awaiting the verdict. Four white officers. Acquitted of hatred.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #April, #CivilUnrest, #DarrylGates, #HoodDigest, #LACity, #LARiots, #RodneyKing, #StayWoke, #TomBradley | Comments

  • HOOD DIGEST + CURB: From Mass Incarceration to Mass Liberation Glossary

    Hood Digest is partnering with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to explore the topic of mass incarceration.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: ##Survivor, #3Strikes, #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackLoveBrownPrideSeries, #CaitlynJenner, #California, #Class, #CriminalJustice, #CURB, #Deportations, #DrugAddiction, #Education, #FBI, #FemalePrisoners, #GangDatabase, #GangMember, #GenderNonConforming, #HoodDigest, #HoodGlossary, #HumanCages, #ICE, #Immigration, #LACounty, #LaJaulaDeOro, #LAPD, #LaPinta, #LaverneCox, #LosTigresDelNorte, #MentalIllness, #Prison, #PublicSafety, #Race, #SchoolsNotPrisons, #StayWoke, #Trans, #USPrisons, #VotaVato, #VoteDona, #WelcomeHomeParty, #WhitePrivilege | Comments

  • Black Love, Brown Pride Stories: Eva Reyes

    Embracing my Blackness and my Central American culture is a crucial part of who I am as an Afro-Latina.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #BlackLoveBrownPrideSeries, #HoodDigest | Comments

  • Black Love, Brown Pride Stories: @OtherSideOfDaGame

    My parents never spoke [poorly] about Black people. But my aunt’s and uncles always had something negative to say.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #BlackLoveBrownPrideSeries, #HoodDigest, #Podcast | Comments

  • Things We Shouldn’t Have to Ask, But This is LAUSD!

    We’ve prepared our own list of questions that we recommend asking the candidates vying for LAUSD Superintendent.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #BoardOfEducation, #CaughtOncamera, #Charters, #CollegePrep, #Equity, #HoodDigest, #JobOpenings, #LAUSD, #LAVotes, #MakeItRain, #MichelleKing, #StayWoke, #StripperPoles, #StudentAbuse, #Superintendent, #TeacherJail, #WastefulSpending, #WillWorkForAnEducation | Comments

  • Black Beans, Pinto Beans

    This piece is about tensions between my Central American fam and our Mexican brothers and sisters.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #CentralAmerica, #CentroAmerica, #CHIRLA, #DACA, #DefendDACA, #Deportations, #FuckICE, #HoodDigest, #ICE, #MEChA, #Mexico, #SaveTPS, #StayWoke, #UnaccompaniedMinors, #Xenophobia | Comments

  • I Smoked Marijuana Once and You Won’t Believe How It Killed My Family

    Did you know that the war on cannabis or “Marijuana” was started – after the Mexican Revolution – by a racist gringo who was prejudiced towards Mexican immigrants?

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  • Defend Guns. Control Emotions.

    600,000 people have been killed by guns in America since 1999: The year Dr. Dre released The Chronic 2001.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #APeoplesHistoryOfTheUnitedStates, #APoorPeoplesMovement, #AR15, #BattleForLosAngeles, #Chronic2001, #Columbine, #Dodgers, #DrDre, #GunControl, #GunViolence, #HoodDigest, #HowardZinn, #HowManyTamales, #LasVegas, #LatinosLoveFireCrackers, #MassShootings, #NewtonConnecticut, #NotAllWhitePeopleAreTheEnemy, #Populism, #PulseNightClub, #RaceAndClassUnity, #RageAgainstTheMachine #RATM, #SanBernardino, #SandyHook, #TheaterShooting, #ThoughtsAndPrayers | Comments

  • When Dr. King Was a Terrorist

    Did y’all watch Congressmember Karen Bass lay it down quite flat for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions?

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #AmericanIndianMovement, #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackPanthers, #ChicanoMovement, #COINTELPRO, #ColinKaepernick, #DonaldTrump, #FBI, #FredHampton, #HoodDigest, #IllegalSearches, #JayZ, #JeffSessions, #KarenBass, #MuhamadAli, #Puterias, #SNCC, #StayWoke, #Stingray, #VietnamWar, #VotaVato

  • Why are we still talking about Puerto Rico?

    Ask yourself the following: how the fuck are kids supposed to go to school with no electricity? How are doctors supposed to perform surgery when the only source of light is from cell phones?

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #Bacardi, #BigPun, #Boricua, #ChuckSchumer, #DonaldTrump, #HoodDigest, #HurricaneIrma, #HurricaneMaria, #HurricaneReliefEfforts, #Hurricanes, #JLo, #JonesAct1917, #JonesAct1920, #JonesLaw, #Liberation #Despacito, #MarcAnthony, #NoElectricity, #OscarDeLaHoya, #Pendejx, #PuertoRico, #PuertoRock, #Puterias, #StepChild, #USColony, #USCommonwealth, #USCongress | Comments

  • Good Immigrant. Bad Immigrant.

    Our communities deserve this: not because we are exceptional young achievers or “good” immigrants, but because we are humans, who want to survive, who want to work, and who want to live without fear.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #11Million, #BadImmigrant, #CHIRLA, #DACA, #DefendDACA, #Deportations, #DeporterInChief, #DonaldTrump, #FuckICE, #FuckTrump, #GoodImmigrant, #HereToStay, #HoodDigest, #Obama, #StayWoke | Comments

  • Due Process

    Get this straight, this is not about making excuses for someone’s fuck ups! Dr. Rodriguez’s missteps have consequences that affect so much more than his political career.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #District5, #Elections, #HoodDigest, #Inequity, #LACityElections, #LAUSD, #LAVotes, #MoneyLaundering, #Pendejx, #RefRodriguez, #SchoolBoard, #SchoolReform, #UTLA, #VotaVato, #VoteDona | Comments

  • A Portrait of Echo Park from an Angry Brown Girl

    Echo Park is experiencing gentrification, it has not been fully gentrified.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #AlexNieto, #AliceBags, #Bachata, #Banda, #BreInvestments, #ChicanoBatman, #ChulitaVinylClub, #CosaBuona, #Cumbia, #EchoPark, #EchoParkRising, #FlamingTaco, #Gentrification, #Gentrifier, #HoodDigest, #JusticeforAlexNieto, #LACity, #LindaNuves, #Salsa, #SonoraSantanera, #StayWoke, #WhitePrivilege, TheGoldRoom | Comments
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