Community Profiles

SMC — After the storm of foster care, domestic abuse and gang violence had passed, Jabril Muhammad found his voice. It’s...

WEST L.A. — Courtne Dotson’s eyes started welling as she sat and listened to a speech that she knew was...

OLYMPIC BLVD — Chianti Morgan believes that she is one of the lucky kids, blessed with loving siblings, supportive friends...

VIRGINIA — Jona Frank was walking across a campus parking lot, en route to cover another assignment, when a startling...

More than 1.4 million people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and three in four families...

DOWNTOWN Anna Cummins is making the grade these days. The Santa Monica resident is on a mission to teach the...

SAMOHI In most ways Kyra Sweeney is a normal 14-year-old teenager just like any other. She counts text messaging, instant...

DOWNTOWN The Santa Monica YWCA of today is a far cry from the YWCA Sally Young started working at as...