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Sacrifice Zones: How Bay Area Community Activists Are Preparing For Sea Level Rise
This week, we're devoting our show to KQED climate reporter Ezra David Romero’s series “Sacrifice Zones.” He explores how sea level rise could push c…
3 years, 9 months ago
Big Changes for Central Valley Farmers, Disability Rights Activist Alice Wong on the Cost of Care
A tiny local election in the Central Valley caught our attention last month. A group of candidates promising change took over control of a big, farme…
3 years, 9 months ago
‘Bad Indians’ Author Deborah Miranda Continues Fight for Native Californians
Deborah Miranda is an award-winning poet, writer, professor, and an enrolled member of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Ba…
3 years, 9 months ago
When You Don't Learn Your Parent's Language, What Is Lost?
This Thanksgiving weekend, we’re reprising one of our favorite episodes about family and belonging. It’s about what happens when you don’t learn your…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Promise of California: Stories of Detention and Freedom
California has always been a place people come to seek refuge. This week, two stories of people seeking the promise of the Golden State, with very di…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Wedding Behind the Walls of San Quentin
On this week's show, we're sharing an episode of the KALW podcast Uncuffed, which is made by inmate journalists at Solano State Prison and San Quenti…
3 years, 10 months ago
Grass Valley Students Focus on School Board Election; Aztec Dancers Preserve a Proud Heritage; Childhood Prank Helps Heal Grandmother's Grief
We head to Nevada County, where students are mobilizing around an election for school board next week. Some of them are even too young to vote, but t…
3 years, 10 months ago
Did I Actually Contact a Dead Person? A Science Editor In Search of His Mother’s Ghost
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3 years, 11 months ago
Exploring the Bay Area’s African Music Scene; Remembering Art Laboe
Reporter Jessica Kariisa is Ugandan American, and she’s spent years listening to and writing about African pop music. When she moved to the Bay Area,…
3 years, 11 months ago