Student Journalism
By Crosscurrents Producer on Nov 18 2010 - 6:09pm
It’s one thing to talk about death at childbirth as a societal phenomenon, but, it’s a totally different thing to experience it.
We’re going to bring you the personal story, now, of a woman who was touched by this tragedy. Commentator Katlyn Marchini from Mills College brings us her story from the...
By Heather Gilligan on Oct 14 2010 - 5:07pm
Driving across the Bridge from Marin to Richmond is not just a trip across the Bay. It’s also a trip across a social divide. On one side of the bridge, Marin’s rolling green hills and roadside bird sanctuaries are laced with bike lanes and trails.
But poverty is visible just across the water....
By Crosscurrents Producer on Jan 27 2010 - 4:38pm
Covenant House is a national network of shelters for homeless youth. Every year, the Oakland branch shelter holds a fundraiser, usually in the form of a silent auction. But when the time came for this year’s fundraiser, the kids at the shelter wanted to do something new, something different; to...
By Nancy Mullane on Jan 25 2010 - 4:00pm
Today, the California Senate unanimously apporoved legislation to ensure that charter schools adhere to state law protecting free speech rights of all students.
In 2006, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) passed legislation that prohibits censorship of student press by administrators and...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Dec 8 2009 - 3:14pm
Hana Baba interviewed Director Ben Frymer about this year's "news that didn't make the news."
By Mike Shen on Dec 1 2009 - 8:08pm
This week, I’m filing a profile piece about Tania Guevara, a Berkeley resident who fled El Salvador in the late 1970s. Guevara is throwing several events to raise money for impoverished villagers in her home region. The farmers will use the money to buy rice, beans, and corn, and to create...
By Mike Shen on Oct 31 2009 - 5:42pm
Yesterday I had the rare opportunity of crawling beneath a public housing project in East Oakland. After months of environmental reviews, bidding, and bureacratic due diligence, the Oakland Housing Authority is beginning to spend its stimulus money on public housing improvement projects. A Housing...
By Mike Shen on Oct 31 2009 - 5:24pm
Since my entry on October 1, I’ve managed to dig up a lot more information about the Triangle Court re-roofing project. Three degrees of separation: a classmate put me in touch with a fair housing advocate, who put me in touch with a local newspaper publisher, who put me in touch with two...
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