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Love Letters to East Bakersfield
By LEONEL MARTINEZ
On any weekend night at my east Bakersfield home, you might hear Mexican banda music blaring from a neighbor’s house, see a Latino teen swagger by wearing baggy shorts that hang down to his ankles, or watch the “elotero (corn-on-the-cob peddler)” push his cart down the sidewalk.
Live the Challenge — 100 Days to Better Health
By Aurora Cervantes
Editor’s Note: Kern County ranks 58th among California’s 58 counties in rates of heart disease, and 57th in diabetes, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Agua for All – New Filling Stations Provide Clean Drinking Water
By Alfredo Camacho
LAMONT, Calif. – Residents from Arvin to Lamont have complained for years about the lack of clean drinking water and the high levels of arsenic, a known carcinogen.
Indigenous Leaders Call for Driving Test in Their Own Language
La Opinion, News Report, Araceli Martínez Ortega, Translated by Elena Shore
Leaders of the Mixtec community of Oxnard, Calif.
Life Lessons for Farmworker’s Son at Community College
By LEONEL MARTINEZ
More than 30 years ago, I became the first member in my farmworker family to go to college.
The College Myth: Why Most Students Need More Than Four Years
The teacher smiled and held a hat as a line of about a dozen students looked at each other nervously.
Farmworker Women Speaking Up on Domestic Violence
New America Media, News Feature, Brenda Rincon Editor’s Note: This article was produced as part of the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, a program of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.Children of the Drought
New America Media/South Kern Sol, First Person, Reyna Olaguez
Ed. Note: Last summer we sent young reporters from New America Media’s youth-led community projects out on assignment to capture, in photographs, how the drought has affected their Central Valley communities.
A Model for Police Reform
Richmond Pulse, News Report, Brett Murphy
Image: Officer Brandon Ruffin chats with a group of locals barbecuing in the Veteran’s Memorial Hall parking lot.
Cuban Healthcare System Impresses South Kern Delegation
South Kern Sol, Question and Answer, Reyna Olaguez
Above: (from left to right) Debbie Wood, Dr.