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Southland Cubans celebrate Fidel Castro's death
“Great festivities,” declared de la Vega, 90, of Northridge, an internationally celebrated Cuban-born composer, pianist and professor emeritus of music at Cal State Northridge, before leaving Saturday to pick up an Educator of the Year award in Miami. “I was absolutely praying all this time (for this). -- Riverside Press-Enterprise
Best Events This Week In Los Angeles – November 28
Vienna Boys Choir Christmas in Vienna
Valley Performing Arts Center
18111 Nordhoff St.
Northridge, CA 91330
(818) 677-3000
valleyperformingartscenter.org -- CBS Los Angeles
CSUN’s economic research center closes
A research center formed in the late 1990s to help track the San Fernando Valley’s economy has quietly faded away. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Newsletter Today: Trump, His Interlocutors and Fancy Footwork. The Mosquito Bite That Changed a Life.
Pop quiz: What’s the connection between Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and Northridge? Time’s up! The answer is a wax cylinder recording of actor Edwin Booth (brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth) reciting lines from Shakespeare’s “Othello.” The recording was donated to Cal State Northridge, and now it’s part of the exhibition “America’s Shakespeare: The Bard Goes West” at the L.A. Central Library. -- Los Angeles Times
Last Call: Van Nuys Blvd Edition
That car culture, and the weekly cruise night that took place on Van Nuys Boulevard—a wide ribbon of asphalt that stretched from Panorama City south to the Hollywood Hills—was the subject of a 1973 McCloskey exhibit at California State University Northridge. LAist offers a number of shots from that showing in honor of the publication of a new book of essays: Los Angeles in the 1970s. They are worth checking out. -- Hooniverse
A migrant from El Salvador gets her chance in immigration court
Garcia's lawyers call an expert witness, Joseph Wiltberger, a professor of Central American Studies at California State University, Northridge. Wiltberger has conducted more than a decade of ethnographic research in El Salvador. He is called on the telephone, and his voice is piped in over speakerphone. He explains that though legal marriage exists in El Salvador, in rural areas such as the one Garcia is from, it is rare. Much more common are informal unions. The fact that the couple had children together would have made them a family unit in the eyes of the community. And, he says, the visibility of her employer’s wealth in the community, displayed by their large plot of land, put Garcia in a high-status social group. -- KBIA/NPR
Nov. 30: CSUN to Host ‘MemoryArte: A Critical Reflection on the Guatemalan Peace Accords’
California State University, Northridge will mark the 20th anniversary of the accord with special exhibition of Guatemalan art, poetry and music on Wednesday, Nov. 30. -- SCVTV
Argelia Atilano y Omar Velasco plasman su romance y sus experiencias laborales en un nuevo libro lleno de sorpresas
Omar no solo está de acuerdo con su esposa, sino que recuerda que, un día después de las elecciones, recibió una llamada del encargado de la fundación de ayuda a los ‘dreamers’ -relacionada a Cal State Northridge- que él apoya y financia, debido a los temores justificados de que se eliminen dichos programas. -- Hoy (In Spanish)
Black Lives Matter: The Racist Reflexes of Police Officers Who Draw Their Guns
Police officers are trained to build these kinds of preferences in more situations than civilians, particularly in dangerous, life-threatening ones. However, they are also making decisions based on those racially biased messages. In a 2014 empirical review for Social and Personality Psychology Compass , scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and California State University Northridge looked at 10 years’ worth of data and found “police officers use greater force (both lethal and non-lethal) when the suspect is black rather than white” and those officers “were faster to shoot armed targets when they were black (rather than white), and they were faster to choose a don’t-shoot response if an unarmed target was white (rather than black).” They were displaying an implicit bias — because their surroundings reinforced a primitive learned preference. -- True Viral News
Massachusetts And New York Students Win Regional Siemens Competition At Carnegie Mellon University
Blake's mentor is Wladimir Lyra, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at California State University, Northridge. -- Siemens Corporation / PublicNow