With a father who was recently diagnosed with cancer, shopping for healthy foods full of nutrients was nothing new for Marissa Porter, who would spend hours researching home remedies and foods that help stop cancer growth. One evening after their trip to the grocery story she decided to make a…

I placed my phone face-down onto the bed. It was a quarter to 9 p.m. Why haven’t I gotten my results yet? It was about my seventh time that night logging onto the Curative site to check my results. From what I thought, they would typically get to me within…

In the corner of a small, dim room is a desk containing keychain rings, silicon molds, gallons of resin, and an air-purifying respirator. Wearing a grey oversized hoodie, and with the window cracked just a bit to allow the crisp evening breeze to slip into the room, Ashley Diaz pulls…

Since late March when the Los Angeles County mandated closures across all business who were nonessential in order to ramp up efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19- Elise Pueblos has continued to work all throughout the pandemic. Pueblos, a resident in Baldwin Park and an employee at Açaí Joint…

an xiao mina / Meedan After watching An Xiao Mina’s interview I gained a new perspective of internet memes. Being a heavy social media user, I see memes throughout my timeline everyday. I never really thought much of them until now. In her interview she states, “Memes reflect and amplify…

It’s not Pasadena or Santa Monica or even Anaheim- it’s Baldwin Park- a city who I can almost guarantee you have probably never heard about. For a city that is underreported in different media outlets, the Census Reporter does a pretty good job at visually underlying the city’s facts. In…

Leaping, galloping, almost looks like he’s running but with more effort. Each front foot lifts off the dark forest green plushed turf before its akin rear foot steps down. Less than a minute goes by and his short bursts of energy starts to fade. He pulls to the right side…

As a child we all grow up with an idea of what we want our dream job to be. For some of us that idea changes frequently- from teacher to…

Within the first few months of being born my parents decided to move into a slightly larger house to welcome their third child. Immigrating from Mexico to the United States in the early 1990s, my parents decided to reside in the small city of Baldwin Park that I now call…