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Aug 30, 2023
People First
BART’s Station Modernization Program brings beauty to the East Bay and beyond.
If there’s one thing that unites people from all parts of the Bay Area, it’s Bay Area Rapid Transit. Every day, people from Oakland, the greater...
Aug 23, 2023
Coyote to The Cure
Duane Linklater confronts the contradictions of colonialism
Can a North American museum, inherently indebted to white European models of what a museum is, ever present work created by North American Indigenous artists in ways that challenge those models?
The...
Aug 16, 2023
Blessed!
Redemption for time served
When I ask 62-year-old Julia Ford how she’s doing, she says “Blessed!” and keeps pushing the wheelchair of the elderly spunky white woman she cares for. The vibrant splash of color in Ford’s hair...
Aug 9, 2023
Going Extra
Xintli Rivera Raygoza works to pay it forward
When 20-year-old Xintli Rivera Raygoza was just three years old and her mom was at home struggling with postpartum depression after birthing Rivera Raygoza’s younger brother, advocates from the Contra...
Jul 26, 2023
Trust the Process
There are many paths leading us to where we need to be in life
At the end of almost every interview I do, I ask my interviewees about the most important lesson they’ve learned on their life journey...
Jul 12, 2023
Free Your Mind
In a day and age, and a time and place, where inflation has us getting less for more, or simply going without, where policies seem to be moving backward but not forward, it’s easy to feel trapped...
Jul 5, 2023
How Free Are We?
Since the Supreme Court ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s use of affirmative action as a factor for admissions and against the debt relief program last week, people from across the political spectrum...