Lou Fancher

Appearing Oct. 28 at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, activist, author and educator Angela Davis delivered a strikingly musical performance. The program’s title...

Using AI for creative writing is like lining up for a marathon, then getting into a car and driving to the finish line. “You...

Berkeley-based author Ayelet Waldman is like the suffragettes and early feminists she came to admire while writing her new novel, A Perfect Hand (Knopf,...

Recognized by the Alameda County Arts Commission with a 2026 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, Samara Atkins said in an interview it comes at...

Bess Wohl’s Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play, Liberation, comes Oct. 23 to Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre. Directed by Whitney White, the production locks up...

In documentary photographer and filmmaker Ken Light’s new book, Soul City: Oakland, U.S.A., 120 black-and-white photographs tell the story of the people of West...

Frederick Noland is the unofficial oracle of lesser-known stories about Black people in America, and especially in the Bay Area. As an Oakland-based visual...

If income disparity in the U.S. were served as a sandwich, it would be sent back to the kitchen. Instead, creeping lethargy and other...