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Sixty-eight-year-old Oscar James stands on a hill overlooking the old Hunters Point Shipyard. He points out a street that’s now closed off by a cha...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 06:46
Cheryl Morgan is in her kitchen wrapping cookies. Each one is shaped like a buffalo.
“They are brown sugar cinnamon, hand-painted buffaloes,” she ...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2015
- Length: 05:19
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Almost 17 percent of the babies born here in Dunklin County are born premature. According to data from the World Health Organization, if this were ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:10
When President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative in 2014, he said he hoped it would help boys and young men of color find success. ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 06:59
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Beginning next fall, all San Francisco public schools will offer a class called Ethnic Studies. It’s a look at American history and culture from th...
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- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:52
We are always adjusting the way we sound. It especially depends on the social situation we are in. Linguists call it "code switching," a term origi...
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- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 2
More than 2.7 million minors in America live with a parent in prison. Studies show that the majority of incarcerated parents reside over 100 miles ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 06:18
At the age of 51, William Bennett was one of the oldest people in California who could claim that. But in June 2013, eight months after leaving pri...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 07:25
Bennett and Porter do their cooking in a shared kitchen that’s part of a transitional house in West Oakland. But they met many years ago.
“Well, w...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 10:42
At the end of a narrow alley off of International Boulevard, through the open doorway of El ColectíVelo bike shop, I’m greeted by a young boy.
“R....
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 06:25
In the garage of a house in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, rehearsal is underway. In the space where a car would normally go is a stage set: a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:15
Donte Clark stands in the middle of a dimly lit stage. A projected photo of a dilapidated apartment building flickers on the wall behind him. In th...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 12:42
In the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, at 1038 Howard Street, sits the United Playaz headquarters. United Playaz is an homegrown org...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 18:06
In a quiet park in Kampala, Uganda, 14 musicians from eight different East African countries sit under a tree.
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- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 09:42
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In Sudan, where my family is from, there is an ancient beauty ritual that married women perform called dukhan. It’s like a sauna, but with smoke.
...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 14:52
The Bay Area’s cultural diversity is translated in so many different ways; you can hear it in how many languages are spoken here. For parents want...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:01
Last June, the U.S. Congress made a landmark decision to pass immigration reform. The new law eliminates the Diversity Immigrant Lottery Visa, also...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:07
Just north of Jack London Square, inside Oakland’s oldest building, you’ll find one of the East Bay’s most celebrated soul food eateries. Even more...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:07
The history of hip hop usually centers on major cities, but a new archive is highlighting the rich history of hip hop in Virginia. Allison Quantz h...
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- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana spent the past year making plans for a new ministry, aiming to address its history of racism, as well as other fo...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 05:23
More than eight years after it flooded and closed due to Hurricane Katrina, the Circle Food Store on the corner of Claiborne and St Bernard Avenues...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 04:42
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From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Laine Kaplan Levenson reports on continued efforts to use the story of the Angola 3 to combat long-term solitary confinement in prisons.
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:39
Doors opened at three state-run schools in Memphis this week. This is the first time Tennessee has stepped in and completely taken charge of the da...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 03:51
