Long before he was a Golden State Warrior, Gary Payton II got an ultimatum.
Option A: He could get a sports scholarship to fund his potential higher education. Option B: He could forgo a college degree altogether. In high school, Payton, as…
Las Positas College has a new Dean of Special Programs, Student Equity and Success: Cristine J. Sidela. She comes to Las Positas from Ohlone College and started on March 3.
Sidela’s appointment was announced via campus-wide email. Vice President of Student Services,…
This peaceful walkout, organized by the Puente Club, started at the base of the stairs behind the 2400 building. Attendees and organizers walked through the interior of the 2100 building, then back outside and around building 1800. Past students. Past professors. Past…
It was conceived in 2017: the idea Jesse J. Sanchez got while working on a production of Hamilton. He wanted to make his own musical, one that covered dreams, generations and cultural heritage. Specifically, Chicano and Mexican American culture. He brought the…
The birth of Crystal Fielder’s twin boys was supposed to be natural. She was due to deliver them — her third and fourth children — in May of 2005. “All the way up until 34 weeks,” she said. But one of her…
Last week, representatives for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) toured facilities at the currently shuttered Dublin Federal Correctional Institute (FCI).
Following sweeping revelations of sexual abuse in the women’s prison, FCI Dublin was permanently closed last November. Now, I.C.E. officials…
We studied in the Las Positas library, separately. He wore plaid pajama bottoms, in blue I think, with a grey hoodie. Making my black slacks and black-and-white-striped knitted sweater feel overdressed. He talked to a friend about his classes, at a volume…
In the first week of Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of Education’s (DOE) Hispanic Serving Institution webpage was gone.
Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), initially recognized by Congress in 1992, are establishments of higher education with Hispanic and Latinx full-time student enrollments of…
Fifteen minutes before 11 a.m. on Thursday, untold numbers of Californian cellphones buzzed. It was an alert from the National Weather Service issued up the Northern Californian coast to parts of Oregon. The message: “You are in danger.”
“A series of powerful…
He’s called women he disagrees with “fat pigs” and “disgusting animals.” He described a woman who’s been a district attorney, the California attorney general, a U.S. Senator and the Vice President as a “low IQ individual.”
In an interview with Access Hollywood…