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1 month ago | 
documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Victoria Valenzuela |Faye Qiu |April Xiaoyi Xu
Send Chinatown Love announced Monday that it launched a microgrant program to support small businesses facing financial difficulties or looking to expand their operations. The initiative provides emergency funding for unexpected expenses, such as flood damage, sudden revenue loss, or emergency repairs, as well as grants for business development, including updated menus, new point-of-sale (POS) systems, and upgraded signage.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
lapublicpress.org | Victoria Valenzuela
When Dusty Smith, 33, first saw the news of the Palisades Fire while scrolling social media, her thoughts immediately turned to her husband. She wondered fearfully whether he had been deployed to fight it. She was used to her husband of 12 years calling her and their six children every day from Ben Lomond Fire Camp #45 in Central California. When she didn’t hear from him the night of Jan.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
theintercept.com | Victoria Valenzuela
Bethany Bourgeois-George unlocked the door to the aluminum mailbox of her downtown Vancouver condo on the morning of August 16, 2021, only to find the letter she had been dreading: a request from the U.S. Postal Service to pick up a package. Although the notice did not state what the package was or whom it was from, Bourgeois-George already knew — she had been expecting it for over eight months. When Bourgeois-George later picked up the box, she was shocked by how heavy it was.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
scheerpost.com | Victoria Valenzuela
By Victoria Valenzuela / The Real News NetworkIt is not uncommon for police to drive around with their lights flashing in Black and working-class neighborhoods in Atlanta. This is a tactic used to intimidate and make their presence known; for residents of these neighborhoods, it can feel like psychological warfare. US law enforcement learned this strategy from Israeli forces.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
therealnews.com | Victoria Valenzuela
It is not uncommon for police to drive around with their lights flashing in Black and working-class neighborhoods in Atlanta. This is a tactic used to intimidate and make their presence known; for residents of these neighborhoods, it can feel like psychological warfare. US law enforcement learned this strategy from Israeli forces.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Victoria Valenzuela
A fireman’s children wrote him a hilariously honest obituary he would have lovedAfter reading it, you'll wish you had met the guy. After you're gone, people will probably forget the exact things you said to them while you were …
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | Faye Qiu |Arianna Friedman |Fisayo Okare |Victoria Valenzuela
Over the course of the past year, Documented published various stories around the impact of TikTok on migrants who made the journey to New York City based on information they had received on the platform. As a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting stories for immigrant communities in New York, the reporters wanted to take a closer look at this source of information.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | Faye Qiu |Fisayo Okare |Victoria Valenzuela |Melissa Noel
On my first day working at the shelter, I had just received my ID badge and was about to meet my team, but all eyes were on two supervisors arguing in the center of the room. One tried to end the conversation by leaving, but the other followed her to continue the argument. Their voices were reaching a crescendo when all of a sudden someone interrupted to announce that a shelter resident’s water broke and an ambulance was on the way.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
boltsmag.org | Michael Barajas |Victoria Valenzuela
As California continues to grapple with the state’s long and dark history of forcibly sterilizing women incarcerated in state-run prisons, advocates are now rushing to meet a New Year’s Day deadline for seeking compensation for victims. And they’re frustrated by all the bureaucratic hurdles that officials have put in their way, which have resulted in hundreds of denials of women who say they were robbed of their ability to have children.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
boltsmag.org | Camille Squires |Victoria Valenzuela
Earlier this month, California voters turned back toward the tough-on-crime era with the overwhelming passage of Prop 36, a ballot measure that elevates certain drug and theft charges from misdemeanors to felonies. The measure will effectively revive a sort of “three strikes” policy for some low-level crimes in the state, raising penalties for theft under $950 and drug possession and making those charges punishable by jail or prison time if defendants have two prior drug or theft convictions.
