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How I See It — My Place
An exhibit of photographs and writing
by California teens

California Stories Programs
WeAreCa Find out more about the history of California immigration and migration and tell your own story.
Spotlighting California Stories projects
“Polk Street: Lives in Transition”

Listen to stories and see photographs from a once thriving gay San Francisco neighborhood

Polk Street
Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Time
"Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Time"

Watch a trailer of a Council-supported film about the powerful Chandler family, who helped shape the city of Los Angeles through the newspaper they owned.

“Stories From Baghdad U.S.A.”

Watch a trailer of a film about El Cajon’s Iraqi Chaldeans, who left their homeland to escape religious persecution.

Stories from Baghdad
 
 
 
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