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COVID

How Cuba is succeeding in the fight against COVID

Reese Erlich - May 28, 2020

One morning along a street with cracked sidewalks and houses with fading paint, Dr. Liz Caballero and two medical students stopped at every door...

News + Politics

The Agenda: Saving local journalism ….

Tim Redmond - May 25, 2020

All local news media is critical during this crisis, and most local news media outlets are struggling. But the nonprofits, the outlets that are...

Art

See Black Women emphasizes ‘who gets counted,’ in Census and beyond

Emily Wilson - May 25, 2020

A two-part conversation called See Black Women, part of Art+Action’s Come to Your Census campaign, is calling attention to Black women's often overlooked contributions to...

Asian American women artists on creativity, activism—and COVID racism

Emily Wilson - May 25, 2020

While the Asian Art Museum, like other arts institutions, is closed during the COVID crisis, the staff is stepping up its museuming from home,...

Housing

Safe sleeping spaces — or cages?

Tiny - May 20, 2020

C.A.R.E. For the homeless On some street In Saint Pete Looks like A cage For people.... -- excerpt of the poem People Cages by Dee Allen /Po Poet “It feels like we...

Arts + Culture

Forget the ‘pale male’ podcast scene, here’s Bitch Talk

Joshua Rotter - May 19, 2020

In 2012, Erin Lim, a publicist and Karyn Paige, a digital marketer, had just appeared on a San Francisco podcast called Your Straight Male...

News + Politics

The next chancellor: An open letter to the City College trustees

Anita Martinez - May 17, 2020

Editor's note: City College will be hiring and interim chancellor to serve for the next year while a permanent chancellor his hired. It's a...

Culture

An online summit targets COVID’s racial disparity

Marke B. - May 15, 2020

Evidence continues to mount that Black and Latino communities are being disastrously and disproportionately affected by COVID and its economic fallout. As CNN, analyzing...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Get in, we’re going streaming

Dennis Harvey - May 14, 2020

We’ve been in the middle of all this long enough for events during what’s usually high festival season to start coming up with some...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ‘5 Blocks’ delves into Mid-Market development quandary

Dennis Harvey - May 12, 2020

Many everyday things have been notable for their absence during the shutdown, so something that stood out was construction—because it never seemed to stop,...

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