One of my most treasured possessions is a now-faded piece of paper – my Grandmother Eva’s certificate of naturalization issued in 1942, 16 years after her arrival in the United States. A Russian immigrant, my grandmother held two jobs and raised her four daughters alone. It was only a slip of paper, but for her it carried a profoundly real psychological impact – the feeling of belonging, of legitimacy, of building toward a future of living in the light.
05
Dec
2014
Harvey Milk Academy comes through for Puente
In November, Kindergarten students from Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy sold lemonade to raise money to buy sleeping bags for South Coast farm workers.
