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Back to SearchThere’s Something Wrong in Vallejo
In February, Vallejo police officers shot a young black man 55 times after he was found unconscious in his car. Another was killed last year after an officer tried to stop him for riding a bike witho…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Bay Area Filipinos Stand Up For Activist Shot in the Philippines
A San Francisco native was shot in the Philippines earlier this month in what friends and family believe was an attempted extrajudicial assassination by the Philippine government. Brandon Lee became …
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
The Long, Hard Search for a Missing and Homeless Loved One
More than 34,000 people are homeless in the Bay Area. There's not enough housing or resources to help them all. Some have friends or family who have been searching for their loved ones to bring them …
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
From El Paso to the Bay: Latinos Look for Community After Shootings
Latinos this week have expressed fear, anger and unity after a gunman shot and killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The suspect wrote a racist manifesto blaming immigrants and Hispanics f…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Young People Fighting For Gun Control Want to Know: What Will It Take?
The three victims from the Gilroy Garlic Festival were young -- ages 6, 13 and 25. Many of the victims from the shootings in El Paso and Dayton were also young. And it was children, teenagers and you…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
When The Media Descended On Gilroy
After the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on July 28, a local newspaper photographer criticized how media quickly descended on the small city in south Santa Clara County in ways we've seen to…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Banning RV Life in the Heart of Silicon Valley
Google pledged $1 billion earlier this month to help ease Silicon Valley's housing crisis. That crisis is playing out in Google's home city of Mountain View, where city leaders want to ban RVs from p…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
How Gay Activists in San Francisco Educated the World About AIDS
A San Francisco nurse named Bobbi Campbell was the first person to publicly announce he had a cancer associated with AIDS in 1981. Around this time, he convinced a Castro drugstore to display picture…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
A Mural That Doesn’t Age Well: The Debate Over the George Washington Murals in S.F.
Can an artist’s original intentions withstand the test of time and modern sentiment? A mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco that intended to depict America's founding father in tru…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
A Migrant’s Journey from El Salvador to the Bay Area
President Trump on Monday announced that federal immigration officers were gearing up for deportations next week. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf responded by urging her community to be prepared. It’s unc…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago