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Oakland BallersThe Oakland City Council unanimously approved a lease agreement for the ballpark for the new minor league Oakland Ballers. -
Lynn Friedman/Flickr / Creative CommonsMonday, San Francisco lost one of the greatest social justice champions. The Reverend Cecil Williams, the co-founder of Glide Memorial Church, died peacefully at his retirement community. He was 94 years old.
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Sandip RoyNepal’s constitution protects sexual minorities. Most recently after a long struggle Nepal registered its first same sex marriage, something India next door has refused to do. And now Nepal’s tourism industry is set to cash in. -
Sabrina Nelson"Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin" is a traveling art exhibit that has made a stop in Oakland. It celebrates the activist and writer's 100th birthday. Detroit artist Sabrina Nelson and Oakland-based co-curator Ashara Ekundayo talk about the Baldwin's significance.
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The first of three investigative stories airing this week from CIVIC, a podcast produced by SF Public Press. -
In their new book, Dr. Jenn Jackson shines a light on the central role of Black women in liberation movements, both in US history and their own life. -
CrosscurrentsPrison reform in California these might include Norwegian prisons. Today, the Uncuffed episode from Norway which won a Silver award from New York Festival Radio Awards. -
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4/24/24 On the Arts Host David Latulippe’s guests are Conductor Gustavo Gimeno, Robert Greenberg and Sandy Wilson, and The Glass Menagerie’s Director Jeffrey Lo and cast members Nicole Javier and Jomar Tagatac with Philippa Kelly | Wednesdays @ 4:00PM! -
Eight projects in the cities of Oakland and Santa Cruz, and the counties of Marin, Monterey and Santa Cruz will receive nearly $55 million in state funds to help unsheltered homeless people move from encampments into housing. -
Several East Bay municipalities are facing almost 400 hundred thousand dollars in fines for releasing untreated sewage into the San Francisco Bay. -
A new CalMatters investigation finds that governments, nonprofits, and businesses are increasingly hiring private guards to patrol homeless shelters and street encampments. -
Children of Ukraine, a Frontline documentary, examines how thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken and held in Russian-controlled territory. -
