USC Impact

Dec 3, 2024 | uscannenbergmedia.com | Daniel Palmore |USC Impact

In 1956, 27th Street Bakery opened its doors to the South Central community, growing to become a name known all over Los Angeles. Today, the bakery — renowned for their sweet potato pies — is in the hands of third-generation co-owner Jeanette Bolden. “Our motto is basically ‘We put the ‘home’ back in ‘homemade,’’” Bolden said. Bolden, an Olympic gold medalist, runs the iconic bakery alongside her sister, Denise Paschal, and husband, Al Pickens.

Nov 25, 2024 | uscannenbergmedia.com | Katelyn Do |USC Impact

After the Vietnam War, nearly 2 million Vietnamese refugees immigrated to the United States, leaving their loved ones behind. In the early 2000s, a Reunification program allowed these immigrants to sponsor their family members to live and work in the U.S.However, Dang and Sen, an elderly couple who immigrated to the U.S. in 2006, have yet to reunite with their children and grandchildren.

Nov 25, 2024 | uscannenbergmedia.com | Chris Bibona |USC Impact

On July 6, 2014, Newport Beach Lifeguard Ben Carlson sacrificed his life rescuing a distressed swimmer, marking the first lifeguard death in the city’s history. On March 19, 2014, 21-month-old Jasper Ray St. Clair passed away after drowning in a backyard pool under the supervision of his babysitter.

Oct 21, 2024 | uscannenbergmedia.com | Nicole Bednar |USC Impact

The San Pedro-based aquarium ensures the health and happiness of its aquatic residents, expressing the utmost care through their aquatic nursery, where they take care of endangered species, and their robust feeding program, where divers collect kelp from the ocean and volunteers grow algae and other invertebrates in their laboratories.

May 11, 2024 | uscannenbergmedia.com | Grace Harrington |USC Impact

The film industry is more than a hundred years old, with plenty of fascinating moments frozen in time to show for it. Filmmakers have always made history accessible in a tangible way, and continue to do so. Three archivists at the National History Museum share their efforts to preserve and present the historical progression of film cameras in their “Becoming Los Angeles” exhibit.