Straight talk about ethnic hair
Gabrielle Douglas, who brought home the gold in the gymnastics individual all-around competition a couple of weeks ago, is one of the many Olympians coming home to great fanfare this week.
View ArticleReviving America's first slave autobiography
Genealogy is becoming an easier field to navigate these days, with websites and organizations encouraging people to discover their family heritage.That’s what Oakland’s Regina Mason did, but on her...
View ArticleMuseum presents the first-person accounts of slaves
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 captured Galveston, Texas. They brought news that...
View ArticleBay Area joins others around nation in protesting Zimmerman verdict
Over the past few days, protesters on both sides of the Bay have joined thousands nationally in expressing outrage over George Zimmerman’s acquittal in Florida. Over the weekend, more than 500 people...
View ArticleNew book chronicles African American history in the Bay Area
After leafing through local newspapers from the 19th century, local author Jan Batiste Adkins found stories of African Americans who helped shape San Francisco. She dug deeper and decided to write a...
View ArticleSugar in Our Blood: The Spirit of Black & Queer Identity
7pm Thursday.Eric Jansen's guest on Out in the Bay is artist Ramekon O'Arwisters. His exhibit, Sugar in Our Blood: The Spirit of Black & Queer Identity is on display at the African American Art...
View ArticleWEB EXTRA: Documentary film captures story of America's first paramedics
The story behind the country's real first ambulance system carries themes of race and class. It was created in the late 1960s. Up until then, police would take patients to the hospital in wagons that...
View Article"The Race to an Emergency": A KALW News documentary tracing the path of a...
If you’ve ever picked up the phone to call 9-1-1, you or someone else probably needed help. Badly. And you probably assumed that after dialing those three numbers, help would come screeching around the...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Nathan Baxter's journey
After serving time in the Air Force, Nathan Baxter, an African American man from Pennsylvania, ended up in the South in the 1960s. Baxter learned a lot of lessons during and after his service – one of...
View ArticleNot a Genuine Black Man: Interview with Brian Copeland
Brian Copeland has a weekly radio show on KGO. Today he is a radio personality, actor, comedian, writer, and performer, but like many of us, he says he got to where he is today thanks to a series of...
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