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 palaciomagazine.com with her Facebook live commentaries outside the Long Beach Unified School District Board meetings. She would be sitting outdoors with her mask, on a chair, with laptop on her lap providing a running commentary…
Vivian Malauulu is the President of the Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees and also represent Area 2 in the city. The journey to the Board of Trustees and her leadership of it has been shaped by strong life experiences. Born Vivian Ramirez impoverished in a barrio in Honduras, the then seven-year-old child…
“Teachers in Chicago are heading back to school Friday, marking the end of a historic eleven-day strike that had shut down the nation’s third-largest school district. After weeks of tense negotiations, the city agreed to reduce class sizes, increase salaries by 16 percent over the next 5 years and bring on hundreds more social workers,…
Uduak-Joe Ntuk represents Uptown Long Beach on the Long Beach Community College Board of Trustees. Elected in 2018, he is the first African-American man elected to serve since the college’s founding. For Ntuk, education is the great equalizer. It can provide anyone with the tools to create their own future. That outlook was formed by…