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October 31, 2025
Grin and bear it
Multiple East Bay families were disappointed to learn that Heather Taylor had made the tough decision to close Outside School/Teach Outside, the program she created and ran in Richmond’s Alvarado Park. The last camp ended Aug.1, Taylor...
October 30, 2025
Remembering Ann Fagan Ginger
Ann Fagan Ginger’s achievements in a lifetime dedicated to establishing, protecting and preserving human rights and international peace laws are nearly unfathomable.
Born July 11, 1925, in East Lansing, Michigan, the Berkeley-based attorney, writer, educator and civil rights...
September 29, 2025
October brings change and connection
“October,” wrote author Bonaro W. Overstreet, “is a symphony of permanence and change.” She might just as well have been speaking of aging—or what some call the autumn of our lives. Like the blaze of fall colors,...
September 29, 2025
Keeping the synapses snappin’
Her recently assigned textbooks include Contested Histories in Public Spaces and Fighting Over the Founders.
As Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez commented in his recent profile of tennis legend Billie Jean King, “Yeah, what a slacker.” King...
September 1, 2025
Best of the East Bay 2025 celebrates a rooted renaissance
In an era defined by disconnection and distraction, we find ourselves drawn more than ever to what grounds us: truth, art, food, love and place. For our annual Best of the East Bay issue, with a special...
September 1, 2025
Bolden leads by listening
Representing a prime catch for UC Berkeley, journalist Michael Bolden assumed his position as the School of Journalism’s eighth permanent dean on Aug. 1. He brings to the Bay Area multifaceted experience and a particular devotion to...
September 1, 2025
Transitions: When a daughter becomes a son
I just wanted to say how proud I am, proud of the young woman you’ve become.”
There was a pause as my daughter took what I said in. Then she began to tremble, big wet tears rolling down...
