Vaccinations and reopenings are on the rise in California, so it was only a matter of time before open mic nights returned to Impulse Music Co. in Santa Clarita. On April 21, around 20 people attended Impulse’s second open mic night of the month, a free showing since the store reopened in May 2020. With […]
Organization aims to assist Black residents in SCV, work with city on law enforcement responses
Following the death of George Floyd last May, Jermain Pipkins set out to establish a collective sense of community for Black Santa Clarita Valley residents. Pipkins’ efforts led to the founding of Black Santa Clarita Valley, or BlackSCV, in June 2020. Alongside his leadership team – Pilar Scott-Walker and Ronald Smothers – Pipkins’ mission with BlackSCV […]
New super PAC looks to dethrone Garcia, Republicans who objected electoral vote count
Joe Jacobson’s first memory of politics came from his grandmother, Judy Clark, who handed him a book about the Presidents of the United States when he was five years old. Since then Jacobson has been an advocate championing for change and an end to, in his words, a “corrupt political system.” He recently launched a […]
Valencia-based animator builds virtual world for LAUSD students at social justice conference
On Thursday, 75 students from schools across the Los Angeles Unified School District participated in an online social justice conference hosted in a city-like virtual world called “Topia,” in collaboration with Heroes of Color, a Valencia-based company promoting inclusion and diversity through the arts. “In the Middle of the Movement: The Revolutionary Act of Collective […]
Quarantine Q&A: nonprofit for food-lovers, feedSCV
Quarantine Q&A: How a local community organization manages to remain active despite a pandemic Scott Ervin and Todd Wilson had a dream to promote healthy eating and help decrease food insecurity within the Santa Clarita Valley community. In 2015, they finally were able to turn their dream into a reality with the founding of feedSCV. […]
