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 LONG BEACH, CA
ON THE GROUND WITH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Getting out the Latino vote in rural California
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
ON THE GROUND WITH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
The action, and promise, behind Native American representation in the US
This dispatch is part of a series in collaboration with PBS American Experience that explores the expansion of voting rights...
Jun 25, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN LANARE, CA
Essential workers go hungry as food rots in America’s agricultural heart
LANARE, CA — Last month a volunteer at a rural Fresno County food bank packed cardboard...
May 21, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN PARADISE, CA
Life in Paradise: A deadly wildfire raged. Then the pandemic hit.
CHICO, Calif. — Business was finally picking up in Paradise, the Northern Californian town that was devastated 17...
Apr 24, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY
In California farm country, growers struggle with labor shortage
EXETER, CA – Across the nation, there is a tendency to reduce California to its economic heavyweights, Los...
Apr 06, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN SACRAMENTO, CA
Sacramento’s Asian American community rises to intergenerational challenges
SACRAMENTO, CA – Sacramento may be best known as the midwest of California, the city of trees. But...
Mar 22, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN MODESTO, CA
Beneath the Bridge: Children in California endure daily hardship and homelessness
MODESTO, Calif. – After a dip in the Tuolumne River, a 10-year-old girl who didn’t know how to...
Mar 12, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN SELMA, CA
Bad teeth: The hidden poverty plaguing rural California
SELMA, Calif. — At the crossroads of Highway 99 and 43 is Selma, California, a small town nestled...
Mar 09, 2020
ON THE GROUND AT THE SOBOBA BAND OF LUISEÑO INDIANS RESERVATION
Native American teens report from the Soboba Reservation
SOBOBA BAND OF LUISEÑO INDIANS RESERVATION – Every other week, I have a chance to drop my notebook...
Mar 03, 2020
