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Musician gives Europe a taste of Bay Area
Melodic tones from a musician fill a Spanish cafe halfway across the world in Valencia, Spain, as San Francisco-based singer Linda Sao pours out her heart before tourists and locals alike. Blinking LED lights rest near her feet, illuminating the otherwise dim room in ArtySana. Sao, the lead singer of See Night, is touring solo […]
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In support of Ethnic Studies advocacy to impact a “grand challenge”
[su_label type=”info”]Letter[/su_label] AÂ historic moment took place on June 22, 2019. While we were dutifully fulfilling our daily obligations, Assembly Bill 331 was passed by the California State Senate, making ethnic studies a requirement for high school graduation beginning in the academic year of 2024-25. As a seasoned San Francisco Mission district teacher of 22 years, […]
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Trump Administration concedes, will drop citizenship question from Census 2020
President Donald Trump announced July 11 that he is issuing an executive order to “defend the right to know who is a citizen and who is not,” and ordered “every department and agency to provide the Department of Commerce with all requested records in existence to gain a full and accurate count of citizens, non-citizens […]
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Elementary school principal accused of repeated discrimination against Latino families
For the past 12 years, Peter Avila has been the principal of the San Francisco immersion school Marshall Elementary, but a series of complaints have recently emerged regarding Avila’s leadership, in particular, his lack of bilingual communication and multiple allegations that he discriminates against Latino families. The complaints, which go back years, have been brought […]
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Palestine solidarity art censored after political pressure
Branching off 24th Street in the Mission are alleyways filled with colorful murals and engaging graffiti tags. Balmy Alley and Clarion Alley rotate the work of artists depicting local and international issues. The sides of buildings are covered in these depictions of culture, identity, current events, neighborhood and city history and solidarity. Among these murals […]
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Red, white and blue: A Cuban in the Land of the Free
Street theatre SRO hotel neighbors have left the cramped domains of their single occupancy rooms to sit in the warm sun, on the steps and benches surrounding the 16 Street BART plaza. Nearest to us the radio of a homeless Afro-Cuban man plays conga tunes. Further off another radio spills out pop songs and a […]
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Grassroots flea market goes legit, secures funding from the city
La Pulguita, the vibrant grassroots flea market that takes place every Saturday in a parking lot connecting Julian Avenue and Mission Street (between 15th and 14th streets), has finally been given the green light, as well as a year’s worth of funding to continue its operations. Efforts to legitimize La Pulguita, have been ongoing since […]
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Incarcerating children, an unfortunate American tradition
“They don’t have ovens and gas faucets in this country yet, but they have electric fences. So I wrote a prayer about some wire cutters. I wrote a prayer so we’d find some scissors and get out!” —Charles Mingus I wish I didn’t have to write about the subject. I really do. As an archaeologist […]
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Ayesha Curry helps launch free summer meal programs for SF school children
On June 17, children and adults gathered at Monroe Elementary School’s playground in San Francisco to bring awareness on the No Kid Hungry Campaign’s texting summer line, which will run through September. “What we are really trying to do is make sure that the kids and the families walk away with information about our texting […]