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Lit

Our publisher’s ‘must-read’ history of US protests is out now!

48 Hills - July 7, 2020

"Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States" by 48 Hills publisher and arts editor Marke B is...

News + Politics

A brief history of replacing Trump with kittens

Caitlin Donohue - July 7, 2020

Picture in your mind’s eye a bug-eyed, enigma-faced kitten at peace, chilling in its home, it’s cheek tufts spreading wantonly. I hate to do...

Art

A display of belonging and hope in Chinatown (and on Instagram)

Emily Wilson - July 6, 2020

For the last few years, the Chinese Culture Center (CCC), has been working to democratize how art is experienced, says curator Hoi Leung. The...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Dennis Harvey - July 3, 2020

New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Libya, the forgotten war

Reese Erlich - July 2, 2020

I arrived at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, on assignment for CBS Radio with my paperwork in order. I even had the phone numbers...

News + Politics

OPINION: Defunding the police is just one step

Paul Boden, Molly Beckhardt, and Erin Goodling - July 1, 2020

Black Lives Matter and other abolitionist groups are leading communities across the country to recognize that the criminal justice system is a powerhouse of...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Cinema’s future in doubt, but these world classics endure

Dennis Harvey - July 1, 2020

Movie theaters (drive-ins aside—who’d have imagined they’d get a comeback?) remain closed for the time being, their re-openings TBD in the Bay Area and...

Culture

Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising

Marke B. - July 1, 2020

The George Floyd uprising, the massive Juneteenth Oakland port blockade, gig workers protesting outside CEO's houses: All of these in the past month have...

Movies

In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ filmmaker Dawn Porter limns civil rights icon

Pam Grady - June 29, 2020

Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon who has represented the 5th District of Georgia, including Atlanta, since 1987, is 80 now, running for...

Opinion

Pride is a defense of Black bodies, and always has been

Carolyn Wysinger - June 25, 2020

This year is Pride 50 — or it was supposed to be. When San Francisco Pride, for which I am President of the Board of...

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