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Caroyln Brandy started playing the conga drum in the late 1960s.“It was something that women didn’t really do back in those days,” Brandy says. “You…

Jeannette King-Harris grew up in Oakland and says she’s tired of all the difficulties young people face there today. So, she’s launching an organization…

Music has played a big role in Tara Hagins' life, beginning when she was 14 and started going to rock concerts with her cousin Holly. Hagins shared her…

Pete Villaseñor moved to San Francisco from his home state of Texas almost 20 years ago. That’s well before the Bay’s current housing troubles began. But,…

Our community storytelling project Hear Here also had the chance to visit the ROCK program at Visitacion Valley Middle School to record the stories of…

RutkaMessinger is a retired high school literature teacher living in San Francisco’s Richmond District. But, she wasn’t born here. She was actually born…

Third-grader Kiana Sezawar is learning to care for plants at the Visitacion Valley Greenway community garden.“I’ve learned that if you want to plant…

Eric Hannan was only supposed to work as the 81st Avenue Library's Teen Service Director for a few weeks. He ended up staying two years."There was a…

For about a year and a half now, KALW has been popping into the 81st Avenue East Oakland library to record the stories of the people who live and work in…

Our relationships with our families are complicated – and they can change. Today, we meet Mary Isabel Joseph, who remembers growing up with a father she…