STREET BEAT: ‘What is giving you hope these days?’

Raishad Hardnett

Los Angeles

“Community. I feel like a lot more of us after the pandemic are being more intentional about building community. … Ultimately, that’s what’s going to save us.”

Robert Hernandez

Los Angeles

“I would have to say God. That’s what I hold on to when I can’t hold on to anything else. He gives me the hope inside of me.”

Jared McGee

Los Angeles

“Community will always give me hope. The opportunities and what we create with what little we have; we are our own resource of hope.”  

Che Spriggs

Inglewood

I’m loving the changes that I’m seeing that are being done by people that really care about what happens and not just respond to what happens.”  

Compiled by Cynthia Gibson in Leimert Park Village.