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Last month, Bay Area communities conducted their biannual Point in Time count. How does it work and what things do we miss?
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CrosscurrentsOakland writer Tommy Orange joins 36 authors in creating the collaborative novel "Fourteen Days" about the early days of the COVID shutdown.
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Oakland singer and vocal activist Melanie DeMore believes in the power of song to connect and lift up communities. It’s what drives her work as a performer and teacher.
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Code-switching was originally used for people who would switch between two different languages — like english and spanish — but the term has evolved to embrace the tone, accents and inflections we use when talking to anyone.
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CrosscurrentsA community in Berkeley finds joy and connection through group improvisation, continuing the tradition of Circlesinging started by the legendary Bobby McFerrin more than 30 years ago.
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This Hey Area question comes from three members of the East Oakland Collective, a group working for positive change in deep East Oakland. They wanted to know: What is the impact of the history of the Black Panthers in East Oakland?
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For the first live, in-person "Sights & Sounds," visual artists Nancy Cato and Ajuan Mance talk about why their new books celebrate Black boys and men.
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UncuffedWhat does it mean to try to project the ocean, when you’re barred from seeing it or feeling it? An environmentalist’s fight for the planet, from inside prison walls.
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Out here, the Bay Area’s Beaches are nestled in the city and along cliffsides. Northern California waves are cold and wild. Two Bay Area surfers are taking hold of that wildness, and the possibilities it opens up.
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Rancho Grande refurbishes old, broken appliances and resells them at affordable prices. It’s a business that clashes with the part of San Francisco that adores the new and shiny, but their 25 years in business lets us know that newer isn’t always better.