Author Archives: By Alex Garcia, Sun Contributing Writer

Two years ago, William escaped the violence of his native Central American country and arrived in the United States to join his mother. But his first day at a Sylmar […]

For his 19th birthday this November, Kevin Hernandez promises to do something he’s never done before. He will vote. The Arleta resident registered to vote on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at […]

In the 1987 movie “La Bamba”, Bob Morales was portrayed by actor Esai Morales as a careless, impetuous, somewhat irresponsible but nonetheless caring older brother to Ritchie Valens, the musical […]

In the midst of a highly-charged political climate, with a president who has accused Mexicans of bringing crime into the country and has ordered the separation of immigrant families at […]

Last week the Iniguez family was getting ready to celebrate the family patriarch’s 83rd birthday on Aug. 25. But instead, they ended up holding a funeral for Luis Iniguez. An […]

Millions of people have seen the video of an angry woman throwing coffee on a Latino worker she confronts in the parking garage of her expensive condominium building in Century […]

Nine-year-old Sebastian Valenzuela spent much of his summer practicing his favorite sport – swimming – but is now back in school. This week, he started the fourth grade at Lankershim […]

At the end of April, parents at Vaughn Next Century Learning Center’s G3 Academy in Pacoima were shocked to learn that an 8-year-old student had brought a gun to the […]

In 2017 alone, California received $3.8 billion in federal highway funding and, in 2016, received $2.4 billion for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. But all those dollars could be in […]