Jenise Miller
Jenise Miller is a Pushcart-nominated poet, writer, and urban planner with over fifteen years of experience in community-based research and planning. She is a California Arts Council Artist Fellow and recent PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. She has published work in KCET Artbound, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Boom California amongst others. She is a proud Compton resident and descendant of Black Panama Canal workers.
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Compton's award-winning Paul Robeson Players was once one of the longest-running Black theater companies in Los Angeles.
La activista y autora Trina Greene Brown comparte ideas para que los cuidadores puedan criar a los niños desde la perspectiva del Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. de crear una comunidad amada que nos beneficie a todos.
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Una mamá de Compton comparte algunos de sus sitios favoritos para jugar, leer y explorar la naturaleza al aire libre con sus hijos en el área de Compton.
A Compton mom shares some of her favorite spots to play, read and explore nature outside with her kids in the Compton area.
Activist and author Trina Greene Brown shares how caregivers can parent through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of a Beloved Community that serves us all.
Here's how to get started teaching kids to value differences, fairness, imagination and empathy, which can help them understand equity and justice so they can practice them later in life.
Poetry’s ability to distill truth into a small and mighty form makes it apt for this time of fake news. Here’s where to find your daily dose.
An arts movement emerged in ‘60s Watts. In response, federal and local law enforcement enacted counterinsurgency programs that infiltrated and co-opted Black arts and culture institutions and surveilled and targeted activists, artists and community member
From 1969 to 1975, Compton's Communicative Arts Academy invigorated the city with art by establishing Compton as canvas and muse as well as by transforming buildings into venues and objects for art in the community.