I remember sitting next to a police officer at a fundraising dinner years ago and being impacted by the way he talked about Black Lives Matter with so much disdain and disgust. He didn’t know who I was other than a Black woman sitting at the front of the room at a table of VIPs….
Melissa Morgan is an old friend of ours (Antonio Ruiz and Sumire Gant). We all worked together back in the mid-2000s on a project called ArtPeace. The project’s goal was to use art as a tool for young people to create and talk about Peace in their communities. Melissa currently works as a marketing manager…
PalacioMagazine.com and its predecessor, Palacio de Long Beach, always had a simple goal: to find and tell stories about the people and organizations of greater Long Beach. We featured interviews with elected and non-elected officials, community and business leaders, entertainers, athletes, pretty much anyone who had an interesting story to share about their lives and…
Black Lives Matter is more than a slogan. It is a movement of people fighting for liberty, justice, and freedom. Black Lives Matter Long Beach is, as they describe, “…a local organizing effort … in solidarity with the national, U.S.-based, #BlackLivesMatter movement.” The organizers are clear about their goals and mission as a Black-led organization…
The Los Angeles Conservation Corps provides at-risk young adults and school-aged youth with opportunities for success through job skills training, education and work experience with an emphasis on conservation and service projects that benefit the community. In the time of the Coronavirus, they’ve been asked by California Gavin Newsom to step up to the challenge…
By Melissa Morgan Three Latina leaders and alumni of Leadership Long Beach sat down in a conference room at Centro CHA for a roundtable discussion. Veronica Garcia Davalos, Vice President at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, Alex Escobar, Long Beach City College’s Office of the President and Jessica Quintana, Executive Director of Centro…
Palacio Magazine’s Melissa Morgan sat down with three Leadership Long Beach alumni for a thirty minute discussion on a wide range of issues. This is part 2 of a three-part program. You can read the text version of the discussion HERE
Three Latina leaders and alumni of Leadership Long Beach sat down in a conference room at Centro CHA for a roundtable discussion. Veronica Garcia Davalos, then Vice President at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, Alex Escobar, Long Beach City College’s Office of the President and Jessica Quintana, Executive Director of Centro CHA spoke…
By Melissa Morgan Three leaders and alumni of Leadership Long Beach sat down in a conference room at Centro CHA for a roundtable discussion on Latina Leadership. Veronica Garcia Davalos, Vice President at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, Alex Escobar, Long Beach City College’s Office of the President and Jessica Quintana, Executive Director…
Por Melissa Morgan “La gran mayoría de los estudiantes que se inscriben en LBUSD (Distrito Escolar Unificado de Long Beach) son hispanos, aproximadamente el 55%”, según el Superintendente del Distrito Christopher Steinhauser. Steinhauser dice que la tasa de graduación del 2014 de estudiantes hispanos en Long Beach fue superior a las tasas de graduación del estado…