REDDING, Calif. – Gabby Gensaw, a 19-year-old freshman at Shasta College, remembers sitting in her high school history...
Dec 01, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN REDDING, CA
California’s Shasta County seeks to improve Native students’ relationship with public school education
ON THE GROUND IN SILICON VALLEY, CA
In California, people lived on the edge of homelessness before COVID-19. Now, it’s worse.
SILICON VALLEY, Calif. — Sarah Rivas was barely making rent since she’d move to Sunnyvale, in Silicon Valley,...
Oct 15, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA
In San Francisco, voters to decide if noncitizens can serve on city boards
SAN FRANCISCO — In 2006, amid the typical post-New Year’s frenzy at Pier 39 — kids spinning on...
Oct 08, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN FRESNO, CA
Should cops be in schools? Police reforms divide a community in California.
FRESNO, Calif. — At 9 p.m. in late August the Fresno Police Reform Commission was four hours into...
Oct 01, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN SACRAMENTO, CA
In California, new effort launched to teach dark history of anti-Chinese bigotry
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When he went to the annual Sacramento Archives Crawl in October, Diego Leibman didn’t expect...
Sep 24, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN MODESTO, CA
Why this 14-year-old California girl is the changing face of the Golden State
MODESTO, Calif. – Alani Magaña looks, acts and talks like a typical Stanislaus County 14-year-old because she is...
Sep 23, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN CAMARILLO, CA
Turning the page: Ventura County students call for reading list diversity
CAMARILLO, Calif. – Civil unrest in June following George Floyd’s death catalyzed young adults in Ventura County high...
Sep 15, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN LONG BEACH, CA
Small business, big gains: Mom-and-pop restaurants lead North Long Beach revival
LONG BEACH, Calif. — The sounds of reggaeton playing from loud speakers outside a Latin party supply depot...
Sep 04, 2020
ON THE GROUND WITH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Getting out the Latino vote in rural California
This dispatch is part of a series in collaboration with PBS American Experience that explores the expansion of voting rights...
Sep 03, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN WINTON, CA
Essential and vulnerable: COVID-19 takes hard toll on California’s migrant farmworkers
WINTON, Calif. — The 31-mile road that connects Modesto and Merced, cut between almond, apricot and plum orchards, leads...
Sep 03, 2020
