As a young woman Margot Genger had a breakdown and ended up in a mental institution.  While the breakdown was real the diagnosis was wrong.  After a year in her own, personal dark hole she shifted gears and became a long-haul trucker, with the goal of writing a book; a book to express her experience of the United States as seen from the cab of an 18-wheeler.  Life, more particularly love, interupted her goal, but last year she finally published her book.  Shift Happens: Breakdowns During Life's Long Hauls is available at Northtown Books.

  Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine is Emily Bernard’s latest book. It is illuminating in its vulnerability, its honesty - and  its frank examination of race and being female in our ever challenging society.   

Los Angeles-based rapper, philanthropist and entrepreneur Ermias 'Nipsey Hussle' Asghedom was gunned down in a senseless act of violence on March 31, 2019. The loss of this visionary has made an impact on the hearts of many...far beyond the streets of Slauson and Crenshaw - the community he loved.

Nipsey Hussle was honored on The Place Sunday afternoon. Special guests included:

• La Toya Fields of Compton, CA, current Eureka resident and Humboldt State University alumna
• Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Crenshaw Community resident and writer
• Marlan Washington, grew up in the Crenshaw Community and personal friend of Nipsey Hussle
• Skipp Townsend, co-founder and executive director of 2nd Call, a gang intervention non-profit.

When asked if Nipsey Hussle was in 'thug heaven', Skipp responded, "I think Nipsey Hussle has to be happy that his legacy has created something greater than him."

Season 1, Episode 2: Fernando Paz, Coordinator of the Latinx Center for Academic Excellence   

Season 1 Episode 1: Maxwell Schnurer, Chair of the Department of Communication

In a special Immigrant Voices, 6th grade students from Instituto Cumbres de Tijuana located at the California border in Mexico, provide a podcast about the immigration phenomenon in the city of Tijuana. The students give context to the immigration situation there.

A special thanks to Rodriguez Marín Sol del Carmen.

Student leaders of the Latinx Center for Academic Excellence, Ivee Tejeda and Caia Santana, stopped by the KHSU Magazine to share exciting information to support students.

One of the ways students are supported is the annual Latinx Graduacion. Each year, the Latinx Center (in addition to the other cultural center's) hold an intimate ceremony honoring  the accomplisments of their graduates.  You can donate to the graduation by dining at Applebee's Grill in Eureka April 11th. You can also contribute directly to the center on the HSU Latinx Center donation website.

My guests are Joe Tyburczy and Aldaron Laird, coordinators of the Humboldt Bay Symposium, which will be held on April 11 and 12 at the Wharfinger Building in Eureka. The symposium will feature sessions on sea level rise, ecological restoration, ocean science, and economic development in and around Humboldt Bay. The symposium will provide the public an opportunity to engage directly with scientists, managers, and local experts and learn about the latest developments on a variety of current issues related to Humboldt Bay.

Click HERE for the full program.