Lisa Deaderick

Go ahead, get closer. It's totally acceptable, probably necessary, and part of the point if guests are going to be able to fully take in the impact of the art on display in the “Size Matters” exhibition at

Lucy Eagleson, the new executive director of National City-based ARTS (A Reason To Survive), talks about her passion for helping youth through the power of the arts

Yvette Porter Moore started with her own history. When she was 18, she started researching her biological parents and their families. Then, her adopted mother, who raised her, wanted Porter Moore to help with genealogy research for her memoirs (leading to information on a grandmother who was a seamstress for famed opera singer Marian Anderson and a great aunt who played O ...

The story of what happened to Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind is both uniquely hers, and one shared by too many Indigenous women.

Devon Lomayesva is from the same community she's worked in for the past 30 years, serving as chief judge at the Intertribal Court of Southern California, as in-house counsel for the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel (of which she is a member), and as an attorney with California Indian Legal Services and the California Indian Lands Office. Now, she steps into a new role — San Diego County Superior Court ...

Four times, Salima Witt has come close to dying. It would be nearly impossible to come away from each medical emergency and illness unchanged, but those changes have led to a deeper resilience and belief in herself.

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'