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Mission High’s Miguel Angel Perez De Leon’s Short Life
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER Miguel Angel Perez De Leon, a senior at Mission High whom friends and family remembered as a young man with a special laugh and a love of music and barbecued chicken, died May 7...
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Frank Kelleher, Youth Advocate, Dies
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER Frank Kelleher, a Mission District native, married to the same woman for 64 years and the father of eight children, died of complications from diabetes April 12. He was 87....
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Hilltop High School’s Mothers Prepare for College
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER In a small classroom at Hilltop High in the Mission District Ronnae Coleman and nine other teenage girls are concentrating on pinning down a frog’s leg. She first stretches the...
View ArticleAdvocates Say Police Disrespect City ID
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER Immigrant advocates told the City and County of San Francisco Public Safety Committee on Monday that some police have little respect for the municipal ID card San Francisco is...
View ArticleImmigrant Community Speaks
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER The Immigrant Rights and Human Rights commissions of San Francisco held a joint hearing Monday night giving members of the immigrant community a platform to testify on the change...
View ArticleCampos Efforts to Change Policy on Immigrant Youth
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER The Board of Supervisors sent a strong message protecting the rights of undocumented children Tuesday night by passing a resolution by an 8-to-3 vote in favor of adopting the...
View ArticleArt Explained
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER Maris Bustamante, a feminist Mexican artist, walked through the 22nd annual Sólo Mujeres exhibition currently on display at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and...
View ArticleTeachers March to Save Jobs
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER Hundreds rallied in Civic Center Plaza on Thursday night wearing pink to symbolize the pinks slips that 453 teachers across San Francisco received this week. “Education rules save...
View ArticleNorman Grant Beats the Odds
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER It was a typical Wednesday night for 18-year-old Norman Grant, who was inside his grandmother’s apartment, surrounded by his great-grandmother, grandmother, aunts, uncles and...
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