San Francisco author James Nestor reads from his book, "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art." It’s about how humans, as a species, have lost the ability to breathe properly. 

In her poetic memoir, "Who's Your Daddy" Arisa White writes about being, a young, queer Black woman carrying the weight of her father’s absence. Her journey to finding her father started with her mother giving Arisa her father's address in Guyana.

The battle over the right to access People’s Park in Berkeley began over 50 years ago, but it never really ended. Now, UC Berkeley plans to develop the space into housing for students as well as homeless people.

The battle for People’s Park in Berkeley has been going on for more than 50 years. Today, we’ll hear about how it all started. Then, poet Arisa White writes about her struggles growing up without her father in her newest book Who’s Your Daddy." And, we hear a reading from El Cerrito poet Maw Shein Win. Plus, today's local music features a new album from Oakland-based artist Javier Santiago.

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Tom Heyman is a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. In this week's My Mixtape, he shares one of his own songs that "seems to capture the wary cynicism crossed with a little bit of hope that seems to be me".  

California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for people who live in the most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus and get the state’s economy open more quickly.

New York Times columnist Charles Blow envisions a succinct and counterintuitive corrective to myths about race and geography in America, and presents a roadmap to generate an unprecedented shift in Black political power.

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Today is World Book Day. It's also the birthday of children's book author Dav Pilkey...