Organic Harvest Gardens: Feeding People. Building Community.
Organic Harvest Gardens in North Long Beach is a pleasant surprise when you visit it. Tucked behind two apartment buildings off of Atlantic Avenue and up against the 91 Freeway, organic...
Replaying Black Lives Matter: The Fight for Liberty, Justice, And Freedom
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 …...
Darick Simpson: New Goals. New Directions
Darick Simpson is a man comfortable in his goals and his direction in life. During much of the time that I’ve known Simpson, he served for sixteen years as the executive director of the Long Beach...
Long Beach, This Is the Time. Seize It! by Melissa Morgan
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...
Hearing Many Voices: Ina Parker-Hicks, Expatriate in Berlin
Hearing Many Voices will be a series of conversations that PalacioMagazine.com is launching today around the issues of the day. Last week, we published a feature opinion piece titled “Looting Is Not...
Replay: Charles Julian Fearing Is A Musician’s Musician with Music in His Blood
Charles Julian Fearing has been around music all his life. Fearing began performing on a piano when he was three years old. We’re not talking about a child’s piano. No, we’re talking about an...
New York Family Stories: Surviving in a Time of a Pandemic
New York City Health Department reports staggering COVID-19 numbers. As of May 17, there are 190,408 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The details can be numbing: Confirmed deaths: 15,888 Probable...
Replay: Dave Williams Has A Lot to Say with His Music and His Mind
Dave Williams hesitantly throws out words when you ask him to describe himself in a word or sentence. “Wow…cantankerous…you know I wouldn’t want to be that hostile sounding.” Prodded, the...