Sanders Archives - 48 hills

Lit

Obama in Charleston: ‘Grace’ delves into White House response to horrific hate crime

Lou Fancher - December 2, 2022

White House Chief Speechwriter Cody Keenan reflects on pressures and transcendence of '10 Days in the Battle for America'

Music

Pharoah Sanders is gone. Take flight on his astral jazz legacy with this playlist

John-Paul Shiver - September 29, 2022

Featuring essential entry points to his work, from a masterpiece Alice Coltrane collaboration to the epic longform "Black Unity."

News + Politics

The Supreme Court loses all legitimacy—and so does the US Senate

Tim Redmond - June 27, 2022

And why are SF pols so willing to take money from the people who empowered Trump and McConnell and doomed Roe v. Wade?

Music

Under the Stars: Fatsouls’ Afro-house is San Francisco’s heartbeat

John-Paul Shiver - June 1, 2022

Plus: Tribute to Alice Coltrane, Mark de Clive-Lowe & Friends, J.Rocc, FOXTROTT, more music to get you up

Housing

Haney’s victory does not mean progressive candidates have to move to the right

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2022

The entire local media narrative is wrong, again. The real issue is why none of the local reporters every question the fantasy of the Yimby narrative.

Onstage

Review: ‘Woman in Black’ gives all the right scares

Charles Lewis III - January 6, 2022

'London's longest-running ghost story' comes to the Strand—delivering a good kind of terror for our times.

Labor

Occupy San Francisco was a game-changer

Tim Paulson - September 19, 2021

Ten years later, remembering the movement that gave us "We are the 99 percent" and put economic inequality on the national agenda.

Arts + Culture

Saxophonist Cochemea further expands on his Yaqui, Mescalero Apache roots

John-Paul Shiver - August 23, 2021

Galvanizing 'Vol. II Baca Sewa' draws on family origins in Southern New Mexico's Mimbres Valley.

Movies

Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ purposefully hands 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival its flowers

John-Paul Shiver - July 11, 2021

This was an unparalleled summit of Black art.

Music

Out of the Crate: 4 vinyl gems, from Black jazz history to fresh R&B cuts

John-Paul Shiver - May 17, 2021

Vespre's much-needed banger, DJ Amir's stellar compendium of Strata Records hits, Black Crowes revisited, more

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