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Purusha Hickson
Purusha Hickson is the founder and director of Stretch for Success Seminars. A hatha yoga teacher for more than 35 years, his principal teacher is Swamini Turiyasangitananda, aka Alice Coltrane, and he holds a senior hatha yoga teaching certificate from The Vedantic Center in Agoura, California. Purusha has studied with some of the great teachers […]
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You can cut your cancer risk by eating organic, a new study says
You can protect yourself from cancer by eating organic, a new study suggests. Those who frequently eat organic foods lowered their overall risk of developing cancer, a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine finds. Specifically, those who primarily eat organic foods were more likely to ward off non-Hodgkin lymphoma and postmenopausal breast cancer compared to those […]
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October Last Day for Voter Registration Event Monday, Oct. 22, 2018 4-6pm
Long Beach, CA – Long Beach youth are registering their parents and the community to VOTE in the upcoming mid-term elections. Success in Challenges (SIC) Youth Volunteers ages 13 through 21 are leading the way. Inspired and authorized by the power of the national “When We All Vote” campaign, SIC Youth will engage their own […]
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‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law. A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept […]
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Michael Ribons
Michael’s father Jacques and uncle Bernard immigrated to the United States. as teenagers in 1947, having lost their entire family during WWII. After serving in the U.S. Army in the Korean Conflict, Jacques met and married his wife Lois and they settled into a working-class neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley to raise a family. […]
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Alfred Coletta
Alfred graduated from Cal State Los Angeles in 1979 with a B.S. in Environmental Health Science. He began his career working full time as an aerospace engineer for Rockwell International Space Systems Division on the Space Shuttle Program. While working full time he began law school in 1982 and in 1986 he graduated from Western […]
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A. Veronica Sauceda
Veronica grew up in Lakewood, California, one of ten children born to parents who immigrated from Mexico. She attended public schools from K-12 and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies. Veronica mentored young women in the Raza Women de UCLA program, helping […]
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Patti Hunter
Although the first, and only attorney in her family, Patti knew her calling was to be a lawyer from the time she was very young. To this day she loves the practice of law. As a prosecutor in the LA City Attorney’s office, Patti spends nearly every working day in a courtroom and has […]
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Dr. David Horne
Dr. David Horne is a tenured full professor of Critical Thinking and African History and is the former chair of the Pan African Studies Department at Cal State University Northridge. He also teaches graduate public policy and introductory political analysis and is the graduate advisor for the department. He is the original Executive Director of […]
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Sam Polk, “Every Table”
In 2013 Sam Polk, a former hedge fund trader, founded a nonprofit called Feast (originally called Groceryships) to address food-related health problems in South LA, where the average income is $13,000 a year, life expectancy is 10 years lower than more affluent areas, and diseases like obesity and diabetes are alarmingly high. Feast began helping […]
