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I am an enthusiast photographer who likes to travel around and capture landscape and cityscape photographs. I also love to take portrait photographs.
As a photojournalism student at Los Angeles Pierce College, I am contributing to the campus newspaper 'The Roundup News' as a staff photographer.
When she was 13, Monique Jones hand-painted a rainbow on her face, took selfies and posted them on social media-proud of the finished product. The next day, students from her middle school bullied her for the post. Seven years later, Jones has become a viral Tik Tok creator with about 540,000 followers and 11 million overall likes.
With sports seasons tentatively scheduled to begin in February 2021, Pierce student-athletes have been gearing up to be able to return to competition. It has been six months since the last time a Pierce sports team has played a game, and players and coaches have been anxious to return.
As courses transitioned online, COVID-19 exposed the digital divide with students who have access to reliable internet and computer access and students who do not. To close this divide, Pierce College offers a program that distributes Lenovo Chromebooks to students who need a reliable laptop to fulfill their online courses.
Despite Sofia Zaragoza's academic achievements, she second guessed her abilities throughout her educational journey. "I often really felt out of place, and I didn't think that I was good enough to be in a lot of these higher educational institutions," said Zaragoza.
Trayvon Martin, a Black 17-year-old, was killed in 2012 by George Zimmerman, who was a part of his local neighborhood watch. In response to Zimmerman's trial, playwrights of color wrote six pieces to channel their emotions on the case's not guilty verdict.
Pierce College to " increase opportunities for student access, readiness, retention, and success" as stated in their mission statement goals. But Pierce will fail to fulfill this promise unless it takes action to suspend synchronous classes for students on November 3.
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles organized weekly protests to show support and stand with the families of those killed by police. One rally cry from these protests was "Jackie Lacey must go." According to LAist , BLMLA protested outside Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey's office for three years.
Quotes and photos gathered by: Cathy Pia and Katya Castillo "I would recommend people going out letting their voices be heard, and exercise their important rights: freedom, free speech and go vote. That is the most important thing about this election."
People often think of librarians as quiet people with their heads buried in books, but there's one librarian who's as savvy in the social media world as he is in the Dewey Decimal System. Mario Macias connects the Library / Learning Crossroads to the rest of the world by managing its page.
Despite the school's closure, Pierce's Brahma Pantry still strives to provide services to students who may need help during the pandemic. The Brahma Pantry is a program that provides services designed to help students succeed by addressing their physical, emotional and mental needs.