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We Spent a Day Inside a Hospital: Here’s How Things Will Never Be the Same After COVID
It’s one thing to write about COVID from home. It's another to see it, to hear it. KQED health reporters April Dembosky and Lesley McClurg go inside …
5 years, 5 months ago
Help for COVID 'Long-Haulers' and Grappling With Anti-Asian Violence
Harvey Shields has worked with some of the Bay Area’s best professional athletes. But since the pandemic hit, Shields has switched gears, and started…
5 years, 6 months ago
How One Woman's Cycle of Incarceration and Mental Illness Helped Heal a Rural System
Marlene Baker lives in Siskiyou County. It’s vast and remote: 6,000 square miles home to just shy of 44,000 people. Marlene has lived with mental ill…
5 years, 6 months ago
A Lawyer’s Winding Journey to Reunite Families Separated at the US Border
In the spring of 2018, former President Donald Trump's first Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, stood near the border wall in San Diego and made an ann…
5 years, 6 months ago
A Push to Reopen California Schools and A Day in the Pandemic Life of a Teacher
The debate rages on about when California schools should bring students back to campuses after nearly a year since schools shut down in-person classe…
5 years, 6 months ago
A Friendship Beyond Prison Walls and a Ferlinghetti Soundscape
Adamu Chan and Edmond Richardson met while they were incarcerated at San Quentin about two years ago, and have been best friends ever since. Adamu wa…
5 years, 7 months ago
Sharing Memories of Japanese American Incarceration, Across Generations
In recent weeks, racist attacks against Asian-Americans around the state have intensified. We begin the show with the voices of people speaking out a…
5 years, 7 months ago
From Zydeco to Psychedelic Cumbia: Our Favorite Musical Stories Through the Years
Remember live music? We figure we could all use a little joy right now, so as we continue The California Report’s 25th birthday celebration, we’re sh…
5 years, 7 months ago
Garment Workers Hanging By a Thread, and Creating a Black Feminist Utopia
Some garment workers in LA spend their days sewing masks and gowns for first responders. But many aren’t getting tested for COVID, much less going to…
5 years, 7 months ago
Partying During COVID, and Why Can't I Get The Shot?
We are almost reaching the year mark when it comes to how long many of us have been stuck inside at home. And if you live with roommates, that space …
5 years, 8 months ago