Summer 2020
Color Compton Paid Internship
7 local youth participated in our 6-week internship that introduced Compton's history and art mediums. Students discussed narrative themes such as; controlling your narrative, owning your narrative and reclaiming your narrative. Black and brown narratives were highlighted.
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Christian Cruz, 19
Jonathan Lopez, 19
Silvia Nuno, 20
Emily Orozco, 16
Karen Ramirez, 16
Michelle Rincon, 22
Emily San Vicente, 18

Christian Cruz,19

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Gaayu’
Music plays throughout the mountains
Red and purple cover her body
We leave home to find “home”
Cinco
The desert becomes my playground
Playing hide n seek I run with one shoe
Afraid to be captured.
I play the game 2 times before I
“Win”
Five
I sit in silence
Put on my mask
Bottle everything up
I am
Home?
...
19
... Disculpame. I am sorry.
Jonathan
Lopez, 19
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A Part of Me
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I am a part of my father
I am a part of my mother
I am a part of all of my family who loves me like no other
I am a part of this country and of its history
And I am apart of the people who will forever remain a mystery
I am a part of the customs passed down for generations that ended just as I started my
American Education
I am a part of those family members that I will never get to meet, and I am a part of all those
places that I was forced to greet
I am a part of those seven schools that, as a child, I had to attend
And I am a part of all of those friendships that I was then forced to suspend
I am a part of all the decisions that have come to affect my life, whether I made them or not,
whether in joy or strife
I am a part of the hopes and the dreams of my distant ancestors, which they were forced to
abandon, forced to sequester
I am a part of the streets on which my grandmother has lived and I am a part of each meal that
she has been so generous to give
I am a part of the music that I have so desperately clung onto in an effort to fill the void of the
culture that I never knew
I am a part of all the memories that I decided to save, whether formed in a photograph, or in an
audio wave
I am apart of a lot more than I ever give myself credit for
I am a part of all of these moments, as they are a part of me
Silvia
Nuno, 20
