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An Evening With Silk Sonic album cover
Guest Blogger, November 09, 2022

Bruno Mars has been a major figure in shaping music of the 2010s, providing catchy pop tracks that also blend in some funk, R&B, rock, and soul: a mainstream artist that made three massively popular albums in the last decade with hits such as 24K Magic, Just the Way You Are, and W


hand holding a remote with a tv screen in the background
Guest Blogger, September 21, 2022

During the pandemic, I had a lot of extra free time. So I ended up watching a lot of TV, and through some of the darker moments of the pandemic, these five sitcoms brightened up my day.


young Latinx women looking concerned
Guest Blogger, August 19, 2022

The Latinx community has fallen victim to the growing mental health crisis across the United States.


kids hands all together in a team circle
Guest Blogger, July 11, 2022

As someone who has done a school sport ever since elementary school, I believe that everybody should do a team sport, especially in high school. Today, I will be talking about the importance of doing a team sport in high school.


teens holding art supplies in front of the Silverlake Branch Library
Guest Blogger, May 04, 2022

Hello! We are the Teens Leading Change (TLC) group of the Silver Lake and Echo Park Branch Libraries. Our project has a general goal of learning about the housing crisis in Los Angeles, and more specifically in our neighborhoods of Silver Lake and Echo Park.


kids and parents clean up a beach
Guest Blogger, April 06, 2022

Everyone should have the right to a healthy environment. Yet, air pollution is a common occurrence in many communities where Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) live, work, and go to school.


teens planting and cleaning wearing safety vests
Guest Blogger, March 16, 2022

Our Pio Pico Koreatown’s Teens Leading Change participants chose to focus on making their Hollywood neighborhood cleaner and safer for all to enjoy.


open stack of books on a table in prison
Guest Blogger, March 02, 2022

Since Fall 2020, the teen volunteers of the Robertson Branch have been participating in the Teens Leading Change (TLC) program by exploring inequalities in schools, particularly around the school-to-prison pipeline.


comic of 3 teens in front of the library
Guest Blogger, January 05, 2022

The SoCal Readers are the Teens Leading Change participants at the Chatsworth library. They are creating programming around the issue of reading engagement among those with learning disabilities.


comic of a mom standing away from her husband and child. in pinks and blues
Marcia Melkonian, December 21, 2021

During the stay-at-home pandemic order, it became evident that mental health was an increasingly problematic issue. Being sequestered in their homes, teens would also be impacted by events in their domestic sphere. During this time, a worldwide trend became prominent: an upward spike in domestic violence.


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