By Timothy Lewis Terry Washington, a 17-year-old San Bernardino youth took home the gold medal at the USA Boxing National Junior Olympics in Lubbock, Texas in July. Washington trains at Project Fighting Chance, a gym originally created as a youth mentoring and life skills program which provided kids structure through organized sports. Throughout, Project Fighting ...

By Dianne Anderson All around, the panoramic impact of the pandemic stretches into every area of life, with higher unemployment hitting poor communities of color hardest, increasing the worst kinds of desperation and profiteering. While the actual numbers are hard to nail down, the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline reports that it handled situations involving ...

By Dianne Anderson Without the mad rush of holiday shopping from one glittery storefront to the next, Christmas is a little harder to gauge this year. One sign of the times is how fast Santa’s list is filling up as local families attempt to get through the holiday without spending the rent on toys and ...

By Dianne Anderson Boxing is considered a contact sport, literally being up in someone’s face, but that’s not likely to happen anytime soon at Project Fighting Chance. Instead, some local teens will be keeping their distance at six feet apart, masking up with gloves on top of gloves in a workout space in a constant ...