By Dianne Anderson In coming to San Bernardino with her Ph.D. in hand in the early 1980s, Dr. Mildred Dalton Hampton-Henry held the beginnings of a novel idea. What if she could reach underserved kids and teens, and show them what it means to be successful – all at a time when local high school ...

By Dianne Anderson Not knowing what to believe or what to ignore kept Amber Spencer wrestling against the idea of the vaccine for a long time. She wasn’t exactly an anti-vaxxer, but she heard all the stories and saw all of the news, and hated putting anything in her body that wasn’t natural. The ethnicity ...

By Dianne Anderson For once, 92407 is the winning zip code. This month, the Pal Center Academy had bumper to bumper high school graduates, and now getting ready to implement their latest windfall grant to take them into the next three years of job training and more resources for local youth. Dwaine Radden said their ...

By Dianne Anderson No one really imagined the coronavirus impact of recent weeks, but some local educators were prepared far ahead of the pandemic to give their students an academic edge. Some schools already had the right technology at their fingertips, and simply needed to put some last-minute moves into motion. Dwaine Radden Sr., CEO ...

By Dianne Anderson Local teens mixed and mingled over the weekend with potential collegians at UCLA, where they rubbed elbows with staff, took in the sites and sounds of campus life, and then off to the roar of a winning football game. It’s all in a typical lineup of learning by example offered at the ...