Gather Oak Park: VIDEO
Gather Oak Park was held on Thursday, September 13th. Many people in the community gathered together to eat food and have fun. I interviewed vendors and participants at Gather.
NNC Stories
Just… Think Before You… Do It
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick just became the face of a Nike ad campaign and for many upset football fans a reason to burn Nike products. Nike is celebrating its 30th anniversary. On Monday, September 3rd, Nike released an ad for their “Just Do It” campaign in celebration of the anniversary featuring a […]
Why people don’t want political officials using Mollie Tibbets death to promote racist views
Mollie Tibbets was taking an evening jog on July 18th when she went missing. Her disappearance inspired a community-wide search which united many different people to work for a common cause. When Mollie Tibbets’ murderer was identified as undocumented immigrant political officials began to use her death as a racist political argument against the Latino […]
Chalk It Up On Labor Day Weekend
Throughout Labor Day weekend at Fremont Park, the annual Chalk It Up Festival took place. Artists and even those who aren’t, took hours out of their weekend to create large chalk pieces on the sidewalk around the park. Pieces were sponsored by nonprofits and companies throughout the Sacramento area and often were advertisements. However, some […]
Voices From Our Streets
“They Call Us Monsters” Film Screening at Sol Collective
On Wednesday, July 12th, Sol Collective hosted a film screening of the Netflix documentary “They Call Us Monsters” The film features three boys, Jarad Nava, Juan Gamez, and Antonio Hernandez, who are all facing life sentences for murder or attempted murder and work together to write a screenplay about their lives before they were incarcerated. […]
Doctors Killing Teens? The Dangers of Prescription Opioid Drugs
According to a recent article by LiveScience, most cases of opioid abuse in teenagers began with prescription opioids from a doctor. The study cites that 85 percent of the surveyed group of teenagers that had abused both prescription and injection drugs said they abused prescription opioids, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, before moving to heroin […]
VIDEO: Local artists flourish at Art Street
The “Art Street” exhibition is bringing crowds of people to an old warehouse at 300 1st Ave in Sacramento, where local artists have set up installations and interactive galleries for a nearly month-long presentation in continuation of the “Art Hotel” event of last year. The exhibition opened on February 3rd and will continue through February […]