Eduardo’s favorite stretch of woods is the winding road of pines and majestic sequoias at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park in California. He fell in love with the outdoors when he was a kid, traveling every summer to his family’s farm in Jalisco, Mexico, and going camping in Yosemite.
"Whether a creator or connoisseur of the art form—no matter if you rap, deejay, spray paint, breakdance, design apparel or promote events—hip-hop demands that you do it in a way that is true to the best part of who you are. It assumes, in true American form, that everyone has a voice. For Fil-Ams fighting a mentality designed to erase individuality and silence voices, hip-hop is an obnoxiously loud vehicle in which they can’t help but to be seen." —Excerpt from, "Being Filipeanut-American," a magazine story about the life of amateur rapper Albert Balbutin, Jr.
Hui Wu saved for three years before finally beginning construction of a detached workshop behind his home on Gramercy Drive in Castro Valley. But neighbors say the building is ugly, unsafe and unfitting — and they want it razed.
Durban, South Africa boasts some of the most beautiful beaches and busiest ports in the country, but the country is also known for its staggering HIV rate among women and children. In March 2009, I traveled to South Africa to report on the innovative ways that researchers and public health experts are helping HIV-positive mothers breastfeed their babies without transmitting the virus. This video examines the pros and cons of a PMTCT (prevention of mother-to-child transmission) method called "flash heating," as told by experts and a 34-year-old HIV-positive mother of one, Nosipho Hilda-Dludla.
BAY AREA, Calif. San Francisco Bay Guardian Superlist No. 829: Safe Houses* In 1971 community activist Bea Robinson improvised a battered-women’s shelter in the garage of her San Jose home. Thanks to demands for shelter legislation by women’s rights groups…
OAKLAND, Calif. As Renée Richard-Smith chauffeurs a coterie of adolescent girls to a party at a modish West Oakland residence, she casually inquires about how their search for first boyfriends is progressing. “Well, I like someone,” confides one of the…
Originally published in the August 2005 issue of Bay Area Business Woman News, which went out of business in 2010. BAY AREA, Calif. In 1990, Registered Nurse Zenei Cortez was denied a position at a local hospital* for which she…
OAKLAND, Calif. What does it suggest about today’s medical world when a woman of color braves a potentially life-saving mastectomy only to receive an artificial breast meant to match the pinkish white skin tone of a Caucasian? Many African American,…
