Simi Situ tried her hand at a lot of things growing up in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She participated in Girl Scouts from the age of 6, performed musical theater and was the first-chair violist in the Downingtown STEM Academy High School orchestra. The international baccalaureate public high school is located about an hour west of Philadelphia, and Situ was one of three Black students in...
To the Annenberg Class of 2024,
Happy middle of June. I hope this finds you happy, healthy and not too hot if you are experiencing the recent, unusual heatwave here in Los Angeles. For those of you who are new to California, L.A. usually goes through what’s called “June Gloom,” a time where the sky is San Francisco-level overcast and the beach weather is subpar.
With less than...
Calls about loud parties, fireworks, road hazards, take up a lot of LAPD time.
What do the roughly 10,000 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department actually do?
The Los Angeles City Council is now considering some sweeping changes to the way LAPD officers operate, potentially pulling them away from responding to many non-emergency situations and replacing police officers...
Henry Jenkins has been a collector since childhood — everything from comics, to horror posters to books and papers. “We’re all surrounded by things that we’ve chosen to hold on to,” he said. “We curate our surroundings and to some degree we construct our memory around objects that weren’t made with us in mind and yet they become...
The world watched an American police officer murder a Black citizen in the vilest way while he cried, “I can’t breathe.”
Large-scale protests erupted as a result, not just across all our 50 states, but also across the globe in over a dozen countries. The scale and spread were notable despite a global pandemic that kept many at home. These are not images and memories that the world can...
To the Annenberg Class of 2024,
First and foremost, congratulations. It is with open arms that I welcome you to both the Trojan family as well as our smaller, close-knit branch of that family here at USC Annenberg. You should feel comforted knowing that the late nights, early mornings and common app supplements were all well worth it. You all are rock stars.
I know your...
Working on Dunwoody High School’s yearbook staff is what first sparked Justin Heo’s interest in journalism. Later, Heo, who lives outside of Atlanta with his parents and younger sister, began an internship during his junior year at VOX Atlanta , an online space for teen publishing and self-expression. “I got to work as if I were a professional journalist and...
This article is republished with permission from The Conversation .
When Americans think of journalists attacked, arrested or imprisoned while doing their job, they think of it happening in distant lands — in places like...