Guys put their best foot forward for YWCA walk
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...
Local groups answer call to aid refugees coming to the U.S.
By Patricia Wei Mosaic Staff Writer Performers decked in ethnic clothing sang and danced at San Jose’s World Refugee Day celebration at...
Summer should mean fun, not hunger
By ANAHI DEL CASTILLO | Mosaic At a small table in the shade outside her San Jose apartment complex one weekday in June, Gloria Lopez...
Hard ‘Core’: Reaction Mixed About New School Math
By ALFREDO "BENJI" HERRERA | Mosaic It was a nightmare walking into math class for Axel Martinez. An average day was filled with constant...
The evolution of sex ed
By RICHARD NGUYEN | Mosaic Joanne Winterstein, a longtime health teacher and girls basketball coach at Andrew P. Hill High School,...
San Jose quilt exhibit focuses on firearms, other polarizing issues
By EMILY HUNG | Mosaic The white police officers’ arms wrap around the black victim, strangling him. Stitched in bold, red letters across...
Young people are the invisible homeless
By SARAH GAO | Mosaic When Mariana, an engineering student at San Jose State University, argued with her family, she was kicked out of...
Japantown project will provide arts groups with a place of their own
By VALERIE WU | Mosaic For the residents of San Jose’s Japantown, a cultural revival is coming. One of the last three historical...
Anime fans pan Western adaptations
By LINDSAY WANG | Mosaic When a group of robots dressed as geishas, or traditional Japanese hostesses, attacks a business conference,...
South Bay teens work to ensure March For Our Lives movement lives on
By MANASI GARG | Mosaic A few students from Prospect High School in Saratoga came home from competing furiously at a Feb. 17 speech and...
K-pop fans line up early for Wanna One concert
By MEENA RAKASI, SARAH GAO and MANASI GARG | Mosaic The San Jose State University quad usually receives few visitors at 4 a.m. Thursday...
A new age of money
By AARON VEASNA MACKENZIE | Mosaic The simplicity of physical cash is being beaten out by a growing digital economy, affecting spending...
Teachers combat school shootings one child at a time
By MEENA RAKASI | Mosaic In Dan Mendez’s classroom, sixth-grader scrawls line every square inch of wallspace. Not all the papers are...
New York Times reporter speaks at San Jose Rotary Club
By MEENA RAKASI | Mosaic Norwich, a cozy town nestled in the Vermont wilderness, looks exactly like every other New England community....
College students walk study-money tightrope
By ALFREDO "BENJI" HERRERA | Mosaic Grades. College Loans. Jobs. San Jose State University student Marlen Espinosa lives with this...
14-year-old venture capitalist planning to ‘change the world’
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...
Hundreds celebrate Juneteenth Freedom Day
By BERENICE MANZANO | Mosaic Hundreds of families from the Bay Area gathered in San Jose Saturday to celebrate Juneteenth, also known as...
Asian cancer survivors: groups aim to help those too afraid to ask
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...
Environmental progress driven by motives big and small
By AARON VEASNA MACKENZIE | Mosaic It has become commonplace for people and industries to take eco-friendly actions, yet more often than...
Painting prodigy makes a big splash
By ANAHI DEL CASTILLO | Mosaic In fifth grade, while many of us were running around on playgrounds, Tyler Gordon of San Jose had just...