In the summer of 2011 I was pulled over at 11 p.m., but why? Did I run a stop sign and crash into another car? Or was it because I ran a red light? Apparently, the CHP that night wasn’t able to see my license plate so he pulled me over.
Category: Community
Growing up you always hear the phrase, “The world works in mysterious ways.” I saw the truth of this saying when I attended the Boys & Men of Color (BMoC) Summer Enrichment Camp. For many years I’ve battled a negative mindset. My motivating experience at the BMoC camp changed my mindset completely from what it was when I arrived.
They call me by a nickname. I’m not like all you other folks. I never had a daddy and my mom was a fein at the age of 42. My mom sadly cracked due to that drug she smoked. She left me in this world forced to believe hell is a place called home. After my mom past I was so depressed I smoke weed until it clouded up my head.
On June 14, 2012, We’Ced Youth Media presented their first magazine to the public. Their launch celebration showed off the new youth voice of Merced and over 200 people attended.
Artist and “Undocumented American” AD Avila shares his position that President Obama’s new immigration policy is a hurtful one to immigrant families, through a comic and an audio description of the experiences behind the art.