Vietnamese writers reflect on the end of the war and discuss "The Cleaving, Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora," a new book of conversations with over 30 writers.

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency, OR EPA, said it is shuttering environmental justice offices and laying off hundreds of employees. On Tuesday, around 100 EPA employees and union representatives gathered in San Francisco to rally for the agency and its workers. KALW’s Mary Catherine O’Connor has more.

This week, the American Lung Association or ALA released their 26th “State of Air Quality” report. The Bay Area received low marks.

QUEER POWER HOUR is honored to be the only public radio station in the country to air a new, 12-part series from Making Gay History about the overlooked history of Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people in the lead up to World War II and during the Holocaust.

On today’s show: we hear from a filmmaker who made a documentary about living with dwarfism, then musicians and poets will celebrate the late Paul Robeson, and a film questions if technology and money should outweigh the arts and people.

The Concord City Council officially altered its residential tenant protection law last night with the required second reading of the updated ordinance and another vote on its implementation.

San Jose is sweeping dozens of RVs and tents from an encampment near the city’s border with Milpitas, leaving some of the homeless residents there with no place to go.

An Oakland city official says a controversial billboard advertising guns could be violating a city law.

It’s Earth Week on KALW. And BAY MADE is sharing episodes from three climate justice podcasts: Earth Riot, Rising Tide, and Climate Shifted. Plus, the sounds of the natural world.

This year's free online Food Revolution Summit features doctors who will share the latest science on transforming the health of our communities and the planet.