More than 500 families in San Diego County are homeless, according to the last point-in-time count. Lola Cheatham and her three daughters are one of those families.

First Person: From Refugee To Proprietor

Queentabel Banka, owner, Banka Hair Braiding

Queentabel Banka opened her hair braiding business in San Diego's City Heights neighborhood shortly after arriving in the U.S.

First Person: First Person: Shaping Youth In Southeast San Diego

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Michael Brunker, executive director, Jackie Robinson Family YMCA

Michael Brunker thinks back to his 11th birthday a lot. It was 1963 and Brunker lived with his parents in Detroit. Ernie Harwell, the Detroit Tigers' announcer, was officiating a raffle with a classic Motor City grand prize: his-and-hers cars, a Dodge Dart and Plymouth Fury.

First Person: Veterans Museum's Poet Laureate On Honoring All Who Served

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Alyce Smith-Cooper, poet laureate, Veterans Museum at Balboa Park

Alyce Smith-Cooper, the first poet laureate at the Veterans Museum at Balboa Park, talks about how she is paying tribute to the "unsung and unacknowledged" heroes of the U.S. military.

First Person: Telling Students They, Too, Can Go From Compton To Neurobiology

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Gentry Patrick, professor and neurobiologist, UC San Diego

University of California faculty who were the first in their families to go to college are making an effort this year to connect with first-generation students. “You would not have predicted that I would be a full professor,” says a UC San Diego neurobiologist.

Jay and Kendra Jeffcoat were on a family vacation in Colorado when they learned their Rancho Bernardo home burned down in the Witch Creek fire in 2007.