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Gang activity in Long Beach and Cambodia Town was most active from 1989 to 1995, through street fights, drive-by shootings and killings. [5] In America by the Numbers Pass or Fail in Cambodia Town, one of the interviewees stated that "we had to protect ourselves," when talking about the difficulties of growing up in the United States. [20]
The founders of Long Beach Asian Boyz were originally Cambodian refugees who the East Side Longos were harassing during the 1980s. [18] Controversy lies mostly around the official origin of the gang, as it was a unification of multiple gangs or founding gangsters rather than the formation of one.
Last month, the Orange County Department of Education hosted a two-day academic conference at the Long Beach Hilton to roll out the Cambodian American Model Studies Curriculum. Over 500 people ...
Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California "... is a neighborhood in Long Beach's East Side centered on Anaheim Street between Atlantic and Junipero." The community has been around since 1959 which was made up of students from the nearby universities such as the University of Southern California, UCLA, and California State University at Los Angeles, to name a few.
Lek, 30, was born and raised in Long Beach to parents who emigrated from Battambang, in northwestern Cambodia. "I'm the first generation of an immigrant family that grew up really poor on Section ...
Sankranta means "beginning of a new year" in Khmer, Cambodia's official language. But some Cambodian American elders in Long Beach strongly object to the new festival's name.
This area is also called East Long Beach. The second meaning was the area east of the Los Angeles River and north of downtown Long Beach and became notable in the hip-hop gangsta rap of the 1990s. The neighborhood has a large Jamaican and Lebanese population. [2] Cambodia Town is located in the neighborhood. [3]
In 2014, it was reported that Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California, the only officially recognized ethnic enclave of Cambodian Americans, had a poverty rate of 32.4%. [25] That was a little over twice the average of America society as a whole, which was 16% according to a 2011 study by the government.