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In his best-seller debut novel, Robert Jones, Jr., describes the romantic and tragic relationship between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi cotton…
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Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me. She reads four poems from her new memoir, Funeral Diva, on this week’s Out in the…
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Here's what's happening in the Bay Area, as curated by KALW news:Legislators Draft Bills to Curb Use of Psych Meds on Foster Kids // KQED"Almost one in…
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On this week's Backstory:This month marks the 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment’s passage through Congress. That was the amendment that did away…
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People tend to treat other people who differ from them, even in seemingly small and insignificant ways, as less than fully human. Our tendency to…
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This is the week of Juneteenth – the holiday commemorating the day all black slaves in America were officially freed. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers…
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Your CallOn today's Your Call, we’ll talk about how people come to terms with past atrocities. The Catholic Diocese in Monterey recently held a reconciliation Mass…
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Your CallOn today's Your Call we’re talking about movies as a tool for looking at history. Recent historical fiction movies like Lincoln, Django Unchained, Argo,…
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Genealogy is becoming an easier field to navigate these days, with websites and organizations encouraging people to discover their family heritage.That’s…
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Slavery doesn’t often make the headlines, but the practice is alive and well in the 21st century. According to an investigation in the San Francisco…