Looking to the Future, Recalling the Past
The Temptations are blasting from an eight-track and a raised, black fist is painted on the wall. It’s 1967 in Detroit, Michigan and Motown is alive onstage at the UC Santa Cruz Second Stage Theater Arts. African American Theater Arts Troupe (AATAT) presents “Detroit ’67,”...
What’s Next, Santa Cruz?
The new year began with national political chaos and social unrest. Santa Cruzans offer ways to cope with these problems through community participation, local music, independent radio and cultural understanding at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s (MAH) annual Lightning Talks. The MAH...
Spoken Love
This is my face / Framed by my short coarse hair that I started loving too late / Sparse eyebrows sit insecurely above puzzled eyes / My mouth, barely wider than my nose / My ears, home to seven of the nine holes on my...
Where Did That Sign Go?
More than 200,000 marchers occupied Oakland, San Francisco and San José for the Women’s March on Jan. 21, and the marchers’ hands were not empty. Protest signs took center stage both across the globe and here in Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Museum of Art...
No More Business as Usual
Two months of deliberation and tension culminated on the morning of Inauguration Day when a group of demonstrators descended from UC Santa Cruz to the streets of downtown Santa Cruz. Students and community members stood against the normalization of the Trump administration and the widespread...
“Nadie es ilegal”
Following Santa Cruz’s thirty-year sanctuary status, Santa Cruz City Council members voted unanimously on Jan. 10 to remain a sanctuary city for undocumented residents. Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to deport 2 to 3 million undocumented individuals. Santa Cruz’s resolution creates...