Lisa Deaderick

Her love of cooking started when Mercedes Tiggs spent countless hours in the kitchen with her grandmother, in their home in South Central Los Angeles. They didn't just cook for themselves, they fed their community, too.

The iconic writer and activist spoke during the 2020 Festival of Books

San Ysidro author Juan Medina shares his story in ‘Border Crossings' memoir

Oceanside artist Marcos Ramirez creates commentary on war, White privilege in ‘Whites Always Move First'

Outside the Lens is a nonprofit using media arts instruction to help youth find their passion and voice about themselves and their communities.

Artist Roberto Pozos turned that childhood talent and love for art into a 40-year career in fine art and graphic design

Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International Museum at Balboa Park. The fabrics, the patterns, the designs all reveal nug…

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved a much more respected place in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. The use of nonviolence, sit-ins, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington? Rustin is credited as the primary architect of a number of significant, effective methods and ideas used in ...

Before he could even swim himself, Sebastian Slovin remembers his father hoisting a 6-year-old Sebastian on his back and swimming in the deeper waters at La Jolla Cove. It's how his relationship with nature began, with his dad, who was one of the best and fastest swimmers in the world at one time.

SDSU professor Megan Ebor's film ‘Even Me 2.0' is a 10-year follow up to her initial film discussing the experiences of older Black women living with HIV and is being screened at the 2025 San Diego Black Film Festival