Asian Americans across the U.S. reflected on their community’s vulnerability to racist attacks, after 21 year-old Robert Aaron Long killed six Asian American women at three locations in Georgia on March 16. Long, who told police the shootings were not racially motivated, has been charged with eight counts of murder. Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant […]
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Radio Teco: Caravana — Meet the Curators
We turn our focus back to CARAVANA: Mobilizing Central American Art (1984–Present), hosted by SOMArts. This time we chat with the three amazing curators, Fatima Ramirez, Josue Rojas, and Mauricio Ramirez about their inspirations to put this Central American focused art exhibition together.
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Radio Teco: Cleaning with Compassion
SF General Porter, Ryan Rouse, chat’s with us about starting his new job in the middle of a pandemic and reminds us that it’s not just the doctors and nurses who are the hero’s in the hospital.
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Mural: Photo Essay
Bay Area based Latinx artist Elizabeth Blancas paints a mural about COVID prevention and recovery in the Mission District’s Clarion Alley featuring poet Yosimar Reyes and his 86-year-old grandmother, Mardonia Galeana, wearing masks on March 5, 2021. The mural was commissioned by San Francisco’s COVID Command Center (CCC) in partnership with the Clarion Alley Mural […]
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SF draws closer to a public bank with widely supported reinvestment ordinance
The new ordinance seeks to establish the preliminary infrastructure for a future public bank. As businesses and workers around San Francisco struggle to keep up with the continually ballooning costs of the Bay Area and maintain economic stability in the throes of a pandemic, members of the Board of Supervisors are pushing to establish a […]
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On the Record with Gov. Gavin Newsom: A Shot in the Arm Against COVID-19
After one of the most challenging years of our lives, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel—the COVID-19 vaccines are here, and my administration is working to ensure that no community is left behind. The COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. They are our best hope to end the pandemic. Getting a COVID-19 […]
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‘Free Malik’ protest calls for end to private prisons
On March 7, 60 people rallied outside of a halfway house at 111 Taylor Street in San Francisco demanding that San Francisco Bayview editor and incarcerated journalist Keith “Malik” Washington, who is serving out the remainder of his prison sentence at the facility, be released to home confinement until his sentence ends in May. Supporters […]
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Donna Personna: a journey to keeping LGBTQ+ history alive and self-acceptance
In recognition of International Women’s Month, we interviewed Donna Personna, a 74-year-old activist, performer and playwright currently living in San Francisco. Originally from San Jose, Personna worked as a hairdresser in San Jose and Alameda until she began her performing career in San Francisco in her 50s. Now, she still performs but has also written […]
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Black, Gay and Undocumented: The story of boxing’s first Latino Champion
On a very cold Manhattan morning in November 1950, an NYPD police patrol car stopped by 42nd street near Times Square where an unconscious Black homeless man lay huddled against the building. It was the body of one of the greatest boxers of all time. Transferred to a dilapidated Staten Island Hospital, Alfonso Téofilo Brown—better […]
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City College counselor marks 10 year cancer anniversary
Those of us who have stayed up late at night, staring at the ceiling of our bedroom, contemplating our own mortality, know that there is a certain fear, a certain anxiety in not knowing. Not knowing when, how, or why. Whether we will be missed or if we have done enough in life. “My biggest […]