By Emily Hung Mosaic Staff Writer Oak Grove High School senior Josh DeLeon took a pair of shiny, silver shoes with 3-inch heels from his...

By Patricia Wei Mosaic Staff Writer Performers decked in ethnic clothing sang and danced at San Jose’s World Refugee Day celebration at...

By ANAHI DEL CASTILLO | Mosaic At a small table in the shade outside her San Jose apartment complex one weekday in June, Gloria Lopez...

By ALFREDO "BENJI" HERRERA | Mosaic It was a nightmare walking into math class for Axel Martinez. An average day was filled with constant...

By RICHARD NGUYEN | Mosaic Joanne Winterstein, a longtime health teacher and girls basketball coach at Andrew P. Hill High School,...

By EMILY HUNG | Mosaic The white police officers’ arms wrap around the black victim, strangling him. Stitched in bold, red letters across...

By SARAH GAO | Mosaic When Mariana, an engineering student at San Jose State University, argued with her family, she was kicked out of...

By VALERIE WU | Mosaic For the residents of San Jose’s Japantown, a cultural revival is coming. One of the last three historical...

By LINDSAY WANG | Mosaic When a group of robots dressed as geishas, or traditional Japanese hostesses, attacks a business conference,...

By MANASI GARG | Mosaic A few students from Prospect High School in Saratoga came home from competing furiously at a Feb. 17 speech and...

By MEENA RAKASI, SARAH GAO and MANASI GARG | Mosaic The San Jose State University quad usually receives few visitors at 4 a.m. Thursday...

By AARON VEASNA MACKENZIE | Mosaic The simplicity of physical cash is being beaten out by a growing digital economy, affecting spending...

By MEENA RAKASI | Mosaic In Dan Mendez’s classroom, sixth-grader scrawls line every square inch of wallspace. Not all the papers are...

By MEENA RAKASI | Mosaic Norwich, a cozy town nestled in the Vermont wilderness, looks exactly like every other New England community....

By ALFREDO "BENJI" HERRERA | Mosaic Grades. College Loans. Jobs. San Jose State University student Marlen Espinosa lives with this...

By MANASI GARG | Mosaic When 14-year-old Taarini Dang isn’t busy being CEO of her venture capital firm Dang Capital and her startup...

By BERENICE MANZANO | Mosaic Hundreds of families from the Bay Area gathered in San Jose Saturday to celebrate Juneteenth, also known as...

By PATRICIA WEI | Mosaic With every phone call she makes in her assuring, friendly voice, Suh Chen gives hope and advice. Suh Chen was 60...

By AARON VEASNA MACKENZIE | Mosaic It has become commonplace for people and industries to take eco-friendly actions, yet more often than...

By ANAHI DEL CASTILLO | Mosaic In fifth grade, while many of us were running around on playgrounds, Tyler Gordon of San Jose had just...