A CLEANER CLIMATE FIGHT
“I don’t want to be the only person alive on this planet, you feel me? I want my people to make it too.” Alexis cureton’s battle for climate justice.
PODCAST: Old Skool Café
For twenty years, Old Skool Café has been a haven of care, community and opportunity for youth who struggled to find it elsewhere. Founder Teresa Goines and founding chef Eddie Blyden tell the story behind the life-changing restaurant in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood.
Podcast: Dontaye Ball of Gumbo Social
Dontaye Ball has brought gumbo to San Francisco. Now, he's doing everything he can to make it this country's national dish.
Podcast: Christopher Renfro
Christopher Renfro, founder of 280 Project and Feed the People Collective, shows us around Alemany Farm.
Podcast: Vandor Hill
Meet Vandor Hill, the founder of San Francisco’s vegan-donut hotspot, Whack Donuts.
PODCAST: ARTIST Mason J.
Meet Mason J., artist, poet, historian and a member of Still Here SF, an intergenerational cultural preservation project amplifying the voices and creativity of LGBTQ2S+ Black, Indigenous, and people of color raised in San Francisco.
Podcast: JD Green and Vincent Jackson
Meet JD Green and Vincent Jackson, two San Francisco artists from Creativity Explored.
Podcast: David Miles Jr.
Meet David Miles, Jr., San Francisco’s godfather of skate and the iconic founder of the holy rolling Church of 8 Wheels.
PODCAST: Yeva Johnson
There is undoubtably no one quite like San Francisco’s Yeva Johnson, “a Black American Jewish queer Lesbian feminist pacifist Unitarian Universalist mother and musician…an emerging poet who works as a family physician by day.” This is her story.
PODCAST: Khafre Jay
The founder of Hip Hop for Change wants to get corporations out of the business of hip hop, and instead return the genre to its roots in the community.
PODCAST: The Curtis Family C-Notes
This San Francisco family band is beloved in the Bay, but their fan-base recently went national after an appearance on America’s Got Talent brought the house down.
PODCAST: Wanika King-Stephens
The DJ and pastor tells the story of how her family came to create the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in San Francisco.
PODCAST: Larry Dorsey Jr.
Meet the the SF born-and-raised comedian and radio personality in a very special episode recorded under the BART tracks in San Francisco.
PODCAST: Morris Kelly
Founder and CEO of SF Roots, Morris Kelly talks about growing up in San Francisco, and his journey from convicted felon to legal cannabis business owner.
PODCAST: Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin
San Francisco’s newest poet laureate talks about his revolutionary upbringing and making a difference through poetry.
Podcast: Ida McCray
The founder of Families with a Future, an organization that supports children of incarcerated mothers, Ida McCray has a life story that will make your jaw drop. Spoiler: It includes hijacking a plane.
PODCAST: Temi Adamolekun, Part 2
In the second installment of our conversation with the Pembroke PR founder, Temi Adamolekun talks transitioning her company during COVID, her own experiences with racism, and her awakening to the Black Lives Matter movement in America.
Podcast: Temi Adamolekun
Founder of Pembroke PR, Temi Adamolekun talks living, running a business, and raising a child in her chosen city of San Francisco.
PODCAST: Del Seymour, Part 2
founder of code tenderloin and Tenderloin Walking Tours, DEL SEYMOUR goes deep on a neighborhood he knows well.
PODCAST: Del Seymour
Like the Tenderloin neighborhood he champions, Del Seymour’s story is richer than most people know.
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THE BLACK TRUTH PROJECT.
From rich personal histories to pivotal experiences with racism to unbridled moments of joy, the Black Truth Project is a powerful call to continued allyship for non-Black people, and a way for Black people to see and celebrate themselves.
Patronage, Access, Race and ART
How one S.F. institution is trying to overcome ‘museums so white’ paralysis
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