Leaders of COPS/Metro Alliance, together with other Network of Texas Organizations, will celebrate more than 40 years of organizing for change on Saturday, April 30, from 3 p.m. to  4:30 p.m. at the Thomas Edison High School Auditorium, 701 Santa Monica Street, San Antonio.

If you know anything about us here at NOWCastSA, then you know how much we love neighborhood stories. So when I heard about the opening for Eastside S.A.: The Future and Back, a community-based multimedia storytelling project, I wanted to talk to the people behind it.

We need your help! NOWCastSA is collecting oral histories to honor the stories of  San Antonio's East Side.  Scroll down for a video with the history of what is now the Carver Cultural Center, and once was a library for African Americans when San Antonio's libraries were segregated. We need you to help us, either by being the guide or by agreeing to be the star of the show. Share your story or tell us who else to contact.

Take a tour of the rich history of change brought by COPS/Metro Alliance on this interactive map that includes video, oral history, photos and documents.  Relive the history as former COPS President Andy Sarabia travels the West Side neighborhoods describing the improvement projects, people and places and the significant events involving COPS/Metro Alliance  over the years. Locations on the map have video, photos and links to historic documents. (Click here to jump to a full-page map.)

Everyone has a story to tell.StoryCorps wants to hear yours.StoryCorps Historias will be in San Antonio to hear from area Hispanics on Aug. 15, 16 and 17, at the Las Palmas Branch Library, 515 Castroville Road. All it takes is you and a friend or family member to sit down and have a recorded conversation about any experiences or memories you wish to share and have preserved.