KALW
From 2020 to 2021, I was a member of KALW's Audio Academy training program. I reported on Bay Area issues such as health equity, tenants' rights, local elections, and arts & culture.
Oakland, Calif., has named its first Poet Laureate. Dr. Ayodele Nzinga — also known as WordSlanger — will serve a two-year term aimed at making poetry more accessible to Oaklanders.
In this edition of Bay Area Beats, Oakland-based producer Chris Keys shares his influences, his creative process, and his recent work on "Judas and the Black Messiah."
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In this edition of Bay Area Beats, Oakland-based songwriter and poet Emily Brown breaks down her conversational lyrical style and reflects on what is lost by the closure of Mills College.
The word Umoja means "unity" in Swahili, and it's the inspiration for a network of about 30 Bay Area groups called Umoja Health. Their effort to understand the culture of local neighborhoods has helped ramp up COVID-19 testing and vaccination rates in the Bay Area's Black communities.
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In this edition of Bay Area Beats, Berkeley rapper Rexx Life Raj shares how he channels his struggles into messages of hope for his friends, family, fans, and future self.
In this installment of our @WORK series, we meet touring musician Zach Moses Ostroff, a multi-instrumentalist and record producer in Marin, whose main source of income has been cut off, due to music venues closures.
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A collective of homeless and marginally-housed mothers took over a West Oakland House owned by speculators. The mothers were making a statement: take housing from big banks and real estate tycoons and put it back in the hands of Oaklanders.
They called themselves Moms 4 Housing.
Oakland's 14th Street was speckled with people and awash with bright swatches of paint. It was all part of the East Point Peace Academy’s fifth day of gathering in front of Oakland City Hall.
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