Replay: Linda Bueno Teaches About Life Along with The American History
Linda Bueno is a teacher at Jordan High School in Long Beach. This past summer she recruited this writer to help her develop a curriculum in American History and U.S. Government (two of my favorite...
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 …...
Replay: Jerlene Tatum: Entrepreneur, Community Advocate, And Mom
PalacioMagazine.com will be shutting down in mid-December 2020. Over the next few weeks, we will be spotlighting past stories. Jerlene Tatum grabbed the attention recently of...
Kevin Flores: Forthe.org, An Independent Search for Truth
Kevin Flores is a Long Beach-based journalist who co-founded the nonprofit independent media platform, Forthe.org. Flores is an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured on NPR, Telemundo,...
Carl Kemp: Falling and Getting Back Up. A Story of Renewal.
Carl Kemp of Long Beach knows a lot of people and a thing or two about getting things done. In the time that we’ve known him, we’ve witnessed his meteoric rise through...
Connecting Our Children to The Future: The Laptop Giveaway
Connecting to the internet became an even greater challenge for Long Beach parents and students with the Covid-19 pandemic and the move to remote education. Families faced difficult choices:...
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...