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Music

For Puerto Rican freedom, MaJo Montijo summons a bomba ‘Huracán’

Joanna Ladd - October 27, 2020

Oakland musician fights "continuous colonial disaster," including Hurricane María aftermath, with gale-force release.

Exclusive

The biased coverage and real story around Lowell High and school renaming

Tim Redmond - October 25, 2020

Attention Chronicle: A lottery for the 'elite' school is neither new nor a radical idea -- and neither is discussing changing the names of schools celebrating racists and colonialists.

Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Marke B. - June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

Onstage

In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

Emily Wilson - March 11, 2020

When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away. “First...

Lit

Aya De León’s ‘Side Chick Nation’ explores post-Maria Puerto Rico

James De Julius - August 19, 2019

LIT Aya De León is a writer, activist, educator, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series, including latest installment Side Chick Nation. The...

Revolution music: What’s soundtracking protests around the globe?

Marke B. - July 26, 2019

ALL EARS "If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution," the old anarchist-feminist saying goes. And it's true, every uprising needs a good soundtrack,...

Arts + Culture

Psychic Eye Records’ new compilation shows darkwave support for TGI Justice Project

Caitlin Donohue - January 21, 2019

For those who would like to wrap themselves up in a Bay Area darkwave shroud to beat the winter chill; Psychic Eye Records just...

News + Politics

A people’s climate summit

Martha Hawthorne, Michael Eisenscher, Lorraine Thiebaud, and Jonathan Kocher - August 29, 2018

This September, community, political, and business leaders from around the globe will be meeting in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit to discuss...

News + Politics

Poor People’s Campaign marches on Trump’s DC

Tiny and Leroy Moore - June 11, 2018

Well I went down to the rich man’s house- to take back what he stole from me -- take back my dignity, take back...

News + Politics

OPINION: US policy forced people to leave their homes and immigrate here

David Bacon - June 4, 2018

We've heard the living experiences of people who have had no alternative to leaving home to escape violence, war and poverty, who now find...

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