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Spotlight February 28, 2026

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  • YAC is Accepting Youth Film Submissions for Flip the Script!

    YAC is Accepting Youth Film Submissions for Flip the Script!

    OAKLAND, CA — The Youth Advisory Council is proud to host an issues-based digital film festival for California youth, titled “Flip the Script”. With two themes and four format categories, young filmmakers and enthusiasts will have many opportunities to win a $200 cash prize. Flip The Script: A Bay Area Youth Film Festival is currently

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  • YAC PRESENTS WORKSHOP AT SYMBIOSIS 2020

    YAC PRESENTS WORKSHOP AT SYMBIOSIS 2020

    In February 2020, YAC presented its workshop “Breaking Stereotypes Around Love” at Fremont’s third annual Symbiosis Youth Summit for LGBTQ+ Youth. This year’s theme was “Breaking Stereotypes” – YAC discussed the media, societal, familial, and peer pressures that threaten LGBTQ+ Youth today, as well as fair representation and institutionalized oppression. We ended off with a

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  • WHO DO THE POLICE PROTECT AND SERVE?

    WHO DO THE POLICE PROTECT AND SERVE?

    On August 23, a Black man from Kenosha Wisconsin, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back seven times by the Kenosha police. Witnesses at the scene said Blake was trying to break up a physical altercation between two women when the police were called. In a video taken on a cellphone, Blake walks towards his

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  • Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign

    Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign

    By Eujean Doo Since the start of June 2020, I have been working on the Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign, alongside almost 100 other youth from all over the United States. Stop AAPI Hate is a national campaign created by the SF State University Asian American Studies department, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Act to Change

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  • THE CORONAVIRUS IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA

    THE CORONAVIRUS IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA

    Posted By Emily Liang As the death toll for the pneumonia-like coronavirus reaches 908 (NY Times), increased cautionary actions have been taken by both the government and individual civilians. According to a Chinese research on the coronavirus, the infection can be “transmitted by saliva, urine, stool… [and] respiratory droplets.” Moreover, those who do get infected are unaware of

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  • HOW ARE SCHOOLS STILL SEGREGATED TODAY?

    HOW ARE SCHOOLS STILL SEGREGATED TODAY?

    Posted by Dakota Raymundo In the past couple decades racial and economic segregation in schools has been growing. According to a report done by Edbuild, more than half of students nationwide attend a school that is at least 75 percent white or nonwhite. For students of color attending these majority minority and low income schools,

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