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CrosscurrentsToday, the Oakland based Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced this year’s group of fellows. One of them is Dr. Ayodele “WordSlanger” Nzinga. Today, we bring you our piece from 2021 about her appointment as the first Poet Laureate of Oakland, a title she still holds today.
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CrosscurrentsBased on the belief that literature can heal, Josiah Luis Alderete and his partners opened a new bookstore in the heart of the Mission District this past November. They call it Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery.
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Trina Robbins died last week in San Francisco at the age of 85. She was an artist, a writer and a pioneer for women in the male dominated field of comics. In 1985 Robbins became the first female artist to draw Wonder Woman in the superhero’s own series. She was also a self described “herstorian” who researched women and their legacy in comics.
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Do you have that one nagging project that you would work on if only had the right tool to get it done? Public lending resources like the Richmond Tool Library can help.
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DJ King Most is Bay Area DJ royalty. Also known as Patrick Diaz, his DJ lineage can be traced all the way back to his seventh grade dance. Now, his special brand of musical “redirections” are in demand with tech giants, celebrity DJ sets, and large art institutions.
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CrosscurrentsMarch is the first day of National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. Bay Area activists were part of a movement that made a difference all over the country.
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CrosscurrentsBlack History Month is winding down and we wanted to know: what’s the history of Black History Month?
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CrosscurrentsOakland writer Tommy Orange is back with his long-awaited second novel, "Wandering Stars."
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CrosscurrentsSouth San Francisco is known for the sound of airplanes from SFO and for its iconic sign on the hill that declares it “the industrial city.” But the city's recently inaugurated and youngest ever Mayor wants to change that.
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CrosscurrentsWe explore the tight-knit community of San Jose’s lowriders, the history of California’s “No Cruising” ban, and meet the people challenging assumptions about lowriding.