Centro CHA: In a Time of COVID-19 and Social Unrest
Centro CHA is a Long Beach-based Latino/a/x nonprofit social service agency formed in 1992. The non-profit serves to advance and advocate for the well-being of underrepresented low-income Latino/a/x...
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...
Shy But Flyy Is A Singer, Writer, And Poet With Heart And Soul
Shy But Flyy has a quick response when asked at what age she decided performing is what she wanted to do with her life. “If my mom tells the story, it was right when I was born.” All kidding...