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'Love me Before the City Disappears' from The Bay Podcast

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Raw Material: 'Visions of Black Futurity'

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The Mission’s Mother and Son Painting Duo

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High Schoolers Rock the Mic

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We All Come From Water: Poetry from the Edge

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A Spam Can, an Urchin and an Eyeball: Handmade Cars Race Down McClaren Park

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Richmond Rapper Embraces Indo-Fijian Identity and ‘Men With Money’

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The Oakland Entrepreneur Building Safety Nets for When Social Services Fall Short

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Up In Smoke: Cannabis, Crime and Creating Equity

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A Pocho Poet’s Ode to La Misión, Axolotls, and Bookstores

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Big Love: Much Love for the African Diaspora

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Big Love: A New Kind of Tough Love

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Big Love: Shroomin' and Shmopin' to Happiness

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Big Love: Practicing Self-Love in Community

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Tracing Frida and Diego's Footsteps in the Bay

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Using an Upright Bass to Break Through The Boys' Club

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Releasing Pain Through Underwater Photography

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Getting a New Routine in the New Year

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Breaking Isolation and Building Bridges

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On the Frontlines of Indigenous Activism

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Revisiting Oakland's Roller Skating Country Singer

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Friends, Feelings, and Food this Thanksgiving

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The 1Up Crew Teaches the Art of Dance Battles

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Startup Dreams, Hip Hop and Theater Meet in a New Play About Tech & Art

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Rapping About The WWII Black Shipyard Workers in Marin

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Bay Area Ghostwriter Behind Hip Hop's Biggest Names Takes Center Stage

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Overcoming Re-Entry and Taking on the Industry That Incarcerated Her

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Say Aye Aye for the Bay With Oakland Rapper Capolow

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A ‘Dynamite’ Young Boxer From Hayward With Olympic Dreams

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Good Vibes and Soulful Feels in a New Album for the ‘Sistas'

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2000 Degrees: Glassblowing in the Bayview

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Pressing On with Press-On Nail Art During The Pandemic

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On Hiero Day, Tajai Massey Says Culture Needs Physical Spaces

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Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith Is Imagining The Future of Murals

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How the Art of Fatherhood Informs the Craft of Poetry for Prentice Powel

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Frisco Born Filmmaker Harvey Lozada Turns the Camera on SOMA

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Building Confidence One Power Tool at a Time at Berkeley's Girls Garage

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A Hyphy History with Producer Trackademicks

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Roll With Us: A Sisterhood of Lowriding

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Roll With Us: Extreme Wheelchair Sports

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Roll With Us: From the Only Girl to Only Skating with Girls

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Cat Daddy: A Lesson on Pets and Parenting

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Roll With Us: Bending Corners and Poppin' Wheelies

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Roll With Us: A Golden Roller on 50 Years of Quad Skating

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After Asking OPD to Leave, This Cafe Made a Plan for Community Safety

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Rocky Rivera Restores Justice Across the Board

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Motherhood, Marijuana and Mental Health with Been Milky

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Layers of Meaning with Visual Artist Paola de la Calle

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Schooling Trolls and Fighting Fatphobia One TikTok at a Time

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Poet Alan Chazaro, the Piñata Theorist

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These Artists Amplify 415 Day's Message of Resistance, Resilience and Restitution

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Comedian Jackie Keliiaa on Keeping Tahoe Washoe

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Cheryl Dunye on Inventing a Film Genre

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Sci Fi and Time Travel with Theo Hollingsworth

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Jon and Alba on the 'Heartbeat' of Film

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Maya Cueva's Films on Reproductive Rights and Immigration

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Tongo Eisen-Martin on a Poet's Role in a Protest

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How Hip-Hop Led To Studying the Bay Area’s AIDS Epidemic

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Rapper Champ Green Isn’t Stingy with the Rhythm or the Wisdom

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Jada Imani on Vibing with Hawaiian Frogs and Riffing Off Mac Dre

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Soul Work and That ‘Bay Area Bounce’ with Artist YMTK

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Nappy Nina on Becoming the Rap Bill Nye and Missing Oakland

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Dale and Sunny: An East Oaklander and His Horse

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Breena Nuñez on Zines and Feeling Seen as an Afro-Latinx Comic Artist

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The Road to Reparations Through Black Genealogy

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The Parallel Lives of One Community Organizer and the First Openly Gay Black MLB Player

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Family, Eritrea, and Berkeley at the Heart of “Everything”

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Essential Work: Designing the End to Mass Incarceration

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Election Anxiety? Laughter Gets Us Through with Luna Malbroux

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Hunger Strikes, Prayer Dances and Protests: A Photographer in Community

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These Community Aunties Want Legendary Black Creative Spaces

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Cat Brooks on Refunding the Community

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Yanni Will Eat You Up and Make You Love Yourself

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The Townfolk Project, Documenting Oakland’s Community

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The Abolitionist Fighting Sex Trafficking with Words and Altars

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The East Bay Poet Bringing Cheesecake to Your Door

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The Queen of Vinyl and the Ears of Rightnowish

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Sometimes, It Takes Time

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Quarterback Josh Johnson Explains There’s More to the Game

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How This National Policy Leader Got Politicized in Oakland

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Sowing Seeds of Social Justice in Fruitvale

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Keeping Yourself and Your Culture Healthy During COVID

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'Paint Us in a Beautiful Light': Photographing Black Joy

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Futbolista Turned Marijuana Medicine Maker

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From West Africa to the West Coast: One SF Griot's Dance of Resistance

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Rocking the Mic and Running the Lake

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Mentoring Oakland’s Youth and Keeping an Eye on OPD

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The Fairy Glow Mother from East Palo Alto

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Getting Out of the Way for Your Creative Child

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Pulling Poetry Out of People

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Poet Porche Kelly Performs "Jokes"

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It’s Not Business as Usual

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Community Service & Star Power with Jamal Trulove

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COVID Can't Stop Comedy in the Bay

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Catching Babies with a Go-To Doula for Black Parents

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‘Angel Parents’ Karega and Felicia Bailey on Grief and Love

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Illustrating a Stutter with Umber Magazine

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The Sweet Release of Writing a Battle Rap

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How Theater Prepared This Artist for the Funeral Home

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KMEL’s DC Keeps the Beat Going During Rona

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