I knew I should’ve left earlier. Why did I even think that there wouldn’t be traffic on the 110 headed towards Downtown on a Wednesday at 2:25pm?It was hot and muggy. My left arm was toasting in the sun, and I knew that by the end of the week, I’d have the famous driver’s tan: one arm nicely sun-blessed a healthy brown, the other white and veiny. I ( Read more... )

Before walking out of my house every morning and driving away to do my daily hustles, I count my blessings. I remind myself of how fortunate I’ve been thus far, and pray that I make it home safely at the end of my day. As a strugglin’ undocumented individual making his way in this country during these times, I’m very well aware of the risks and ( Read more... )

So tonight, I lost my wallet ( Read more... )

Noodles are evil (8:39:07 PM): he shut down guantanamo bay ( Read more... )

"In the mountains of Chiapas, death was a part of daily life ( Read more... )

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... the last thing that you ever expected to hear is uttered in sleepy whispers to your ear in a telephone conversation that should've happened five years ago ( Read more... )

not that i'm a big obama fan, but i just don't understand john mccain's perspective of obama's reception by the public ( Read more... )

yesterday, i had a lengthy discussion with my coworkers about police brutality and the several fatal police shootings that have occurred in the inglewood/lennox area in the past three months.

a couple of weeks ago, a black postal worker (kevin wicks) was shot to death by the same police officer (officer brian ragan) who shot and killed an unarmed ( Read more... )

the restaurant hadn't even been opened five minutes when this bearded man wearing a black turban walked in. he hurried to the front counter holding an opened wallet in his right hand ( Read more... )