Rolando Rodriguez

If you’re searching and finding silver linings when it comes to COVID-19 and the inconvenient changes it’s caused society, you probably haven’t had someone close to you die from it. You’re exploring the bright side from a place of privilege. I hope it stays that way for all of us...

In The King’s Speech, a movie about King George VI’s ascension to the throne of the British Empire – the royal hires a speech therapist, named Lionel Logue, to overcome his stammer. The most powerful scene in the movie is when the king questions his teacher’s educational background, or lack there...

As I watched the World Series unfold this year, I saw a design for an upset that I’d witnessed firsthand already. Two years ago, I was pumping my fist in the air at Dodger Stadium inside a sea of blue. My shoe was red from having kicked Goliath in the...

The other day I got an unexpected visit from a friend, Robin Beltran, a media personality who is African-American. She recently went natural on the dome. Her hair is now a big, beautiful, puffy unapologetic Afro – a crown, she calls it. She said something very revealing to me during...

Riding in an Uber and listening to '90s R&B on my way to the AT&T Compaq Store off U.S. 59, just across the highway from the old Summit, I felt nostalgic and transported to my youth, remembering life at a simpler time. “R&B is dead,” the driver interrupted my daydream...