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A sad, brutally honest memoir about "a poor, sexually abused, drug-addicted Chicano kid," Jesse Leons narrative is one that vividly brings to the page the realities of someone ignored by the system.

A sad, brutally honest memoir about "a poor, sexually abused, drug-addicted Chicano kid," Jesse Leon's narrative is one that vividly brings to the page the realities of someone ignored by the system.

An Account from a TBI Survivor that Discusses the Hardships and Progress when Gaining a New Lease on Life.

Independent bookstores in Los Angeles are on the rise again after struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic.

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SCC Hagan Center Diversity Series Speaker: Luis Rodriguez Spokane Community College’s Hagan Center welcomes speaker Luis Rodriguez, author of It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing, winner of a 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award, and Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., winner of a Carl Sandburg Literary Award. Rodriguez was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, where he and his family faced poverty and dicriminati...

Luis J. Rodriguez talks with SPRs Chris Maccini Born in El Paso, Texas, Luis J. Rodriguez grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles. A gang member and drug user at the age of twelve, by the time he turned eighteen, Rodríguez had lost twenty-five of his friends to gang violence, drug overdoses, shootings, and suicide. He’s the author of two award-winning autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutio...