East Bay Yesterday
By East Bay Yesterday
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Episodes: 129
B Llem
Aug 11, 2019
A great podcast if you're interested in the East Bay of the SF Bay area. Liam is knowledgeable and interesting. recommended!
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East Bay history podcast that gathers, shares & celebrate stories from Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
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“Crockett became Italy”: How a sugar factory created an immigrant enclave
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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“A town in the middle of a city”: Live from Jingletown with the Co-Founders crew
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Punks on film: How Murray Bowles captured “the physical expression of drama”
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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A century of mysteries: Exploring the Fox Theater’s hazy history
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Freight trains, plants, and a vanishing world: Joey Santore on industry and ecology
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The missing chapter: Filling in the blanks of the Bay Area’s Native American history
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Sea walls won’t save us: The past and future of the Bay’s shifting shorelines
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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“These stories still matter”: Bay Area Lesbian Archives starts a new chapter
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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“The mecca of pleasure seekers in California”: Exploring the rise of the amusement industry
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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“Those wonderful smells”: A Bay Area coffee history crash course
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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“Everybody wants it preserved”: Time is running out to save this Oakland landmark
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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"A crazy gamble": Celebrating 75 years of KPFA radio
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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“The jewel of Oakland”: Exploring Lake Merritt and Children’s Fairyland
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May 08, 2024 |
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“The neighborhood time forgot”: A strange sliver of waterfront
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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“Climbing was all I had”: A history of bouldering in the Berkeley Hills
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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“The streets have changed”: “Drug Lords of Oakland” author on the rise and fall of local kingpins
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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"Rotten City" no more: The history of a tiny town's transformation
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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“He was bringing people together”: Why was Dr. Marcus Foster murdered?
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Unearthing “lives of the dead”: A tour of Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Abortion, poetry, and stink-bombs: A different kind of “self-help” movement
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Tales from the pit: Lessons from Berkeley’s landfill
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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"End of the line": How we lost the Key System
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Long Lost Puzzle: What happened to the grizzly bears and old growth redwoods?
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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“You get to play a game of detective”: Longtime librarian Dorothy Lazard uncovers a whole new world
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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A curious conversation: Myth-busting and more with Olivia Allen-Price
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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From volcanoes to potholes: Excavating stories below the soil with Andrew Alden
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May 17, 2023 |
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“Time is not money”: Challenging clocks, nostalgia, and more with Jenny Odell
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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"Who was Joaquin Miller?": Assessing the legacy and land of a controversial icon
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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"We were being erased": The woman who saved California’s Black history
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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“Is reform possible?”: Investigating Oakland’s dysfunctional police department
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Saved from the wrecking ball: The resurrection of Oakland’s Paramount Theater
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Rooted in Richmond: Touring a "cultural gold mine"
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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What happened to “America’s most-read woman”? Rediscovering Elsie Robinson
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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“It’s okay to talk about sex toys”: Nenna Joiner digs deep into pleasures of the past
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Nurses, Novelists, Politicians, and Punks: Miriam Klein Stahl’s “Hella Feminist” portraits
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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“What made Julia Morgan different?”: Exploring the early years of a superstar architect
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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“If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with”: When Ronald Reagan sent troops into Berkeley
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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“They’re scared of this book”: Oakland history under attack
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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“Oakland isn’t a bad place”: Ed Howard’s lifelong mission to uplift The Town
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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How to not pay rent: Long-term squatter Violet Thorns on “the art of becoming untouchable”
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May 06, 2022 |
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“They wouldn’t sell us rice”: A Filipina elder’s memories of survival and song
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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From playgrounds to the pros: The rise (and fall?) of Oakland as a sports mecca
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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“They were real macks”: How the Ward Brothers inspired a cult classic
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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“A new Pacific frontier”: The beginnings of Berkeley
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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"He stole the town": Oakland's founding father was a villain
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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“Black Art was her language”: Searching for the mother of a movement
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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"More than just the 1960s": Following the footsteps of rock & roll legends
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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“The porters were fed up”: C.L. Dellums and the rise of America’s first Black union
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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“Like a neon space carnival”: The trippy memories of a 90’s “Raver Girl”
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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“There’s no reason to be San Francisco”: The mixed legacy of Oakland’s ambition
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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“It was my whole universe”: William Gee Wong on growing up in Oakland’s Chinatown
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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“Dear Brown Eyes”: How a stash of old letters helped heal a family
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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“Who ordered the hit?” Investigating Mac Dre’s tragic murder
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Hoover-Foster Stories, Vol. 2: “You become an art anthropologist”
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Hoover-Foster Stories, Vol. 1: BBQ, books, and big banks
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May 04, 2021 |
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“We’re no longer afraid to be Black”: Before the Panthers, this group was the vanguard
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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“We’re uncovering a lost civilization”: A look at the New Deal’s local legacy
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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BART, bathhouses, and beyond: The friendship behind “The Cruising Diaries”
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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“We were here before California was a state”: Talking Latino history with Jose Rivera
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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“It was like a carnival”: The betrayal of Oakland’s 1946 General Strike
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Goodbye, Telegraph Avenue: An audio time capsule of the past decade
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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“We’re not selling a neighborhood”: A new guidebook spotlights landmarks of conflict and resilience
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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“A home burned every 11 seconds”: A deadly tragedy that could happen again
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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“They insist on being here”: Oakland’s official bird refuses to be moved
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Why Dorothea Lange still matters: Q&A with Oakland Museum's Drew Johnson
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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“How you organize that rage”: Challenging the police before Black Lives Matter
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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EBY Q&A Live: Opening up about oysters
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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A town within The Town: Oakland Army Base workers on its rise and fall
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May 19, 2020 |
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From war to love: My grandma remembers the Oakland Army Base
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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“We were being erased”: The woman who saved California’s Black history
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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EBY Q&A: The Bay and beyond with Chris Carlsson
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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EBY Q&A: How did it get so expensive to live here?
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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“OK, let’s go crazy”: How an unusual contest became the pride of Piedmont
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Feb 08, 2020 |
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Unfair housing: Why racism and real estate are so hard to untangle
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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EBY Q&A: Leland Stanford, the original tech bro
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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“It wasn’t part of my childhood”: Chicano Power and the rise of Día de los Muertos in Oakland
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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EBY Q&A live: A wild ride through BART history
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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EBY Q&A: Betty Reid Soskin's century of chaos and hope
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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EBY Q&A: 50 Years of free health care
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Deep in Canyon, part 3: “A community of choice”
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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EBY Q&A: The earth-shattering history of a small East Bay town
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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EBY Q&A: Taking South Asian history to the streets
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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“I enjoyed every day”: A tribute to Ruth Beckford
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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EBY Q&A: How to do nothing in Oakland with Jenny Odell
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May 23, 2019 |
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“If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with”: When Ronald Reagan sent troops into Berkeley
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May 08, 2019 |
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EBY Q&A: Exploring Lake Merritt and Children’s Fairyland
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Deep in Canyon, part 2: “It wasn’t utopia... it was real.”
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Deep in Canyon, part 1: “Paradise with a dash of chaos”
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Bonus episode: Q&A with “Evolutionary Blues” director Cheryl Fabio
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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“The Silent Generation was over”: Building Berkeley’s 1960s student movement
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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“Getting shot was one of the best things that happened”: Life after an Oakland assassination attempt
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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“Respect the patch”: How Oakland’s oldest Black motorcycle club survived nearly 60 years
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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“It’s in the DNA of hip-hop”: Tracing the local roots of a musical movement
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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“Get to know us first”: Longtime residents reflect on Oakland’s transformation
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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“This strange monument”: The story behind one of Oakland’s most prominent abandoned buildings
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May 31, 2018 |
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Long Lost Oakland, chapter 5: Overcoming racism, Lew Hing became king of Oakland’s canning industry
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May 08, 2018 |
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Long Lost Oakland, chapter 4: Balloons, booms & busts
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Apr 07, 2018 |
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Long Lost Oakland, chapter 3: How battles over sacred sites have revived Ohlone culture
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Long Lost Oakland, chapter 2: “When the shipyard closed, my dad came home and cried”
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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“I’ll die if I let go”: After the earthquake, West Oakland came to the rescue
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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Long Lost Oakland, chapter 1: Grizzly bears & redwood trees
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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“They can’t believe he lived here”: Why John Muir settled down in the East Bay
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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Lenn Keller and the roots of the East Bay’s lesbian of color community
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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“You can’t replace that with photos”: Why so many buildings in Oakland have been picked up and moved
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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True shorties, vol. 1: Horse heads & bullet holes
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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“The freest time of my life”: Richard Pryor’s transformative East Bay experience
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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“The queen of the West Coast blues”: Sugar Pie DeSanto serves up sweet & spicy stories
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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“I believe in the elders”: Pendarvis Harshaw on gathering OG wisdom
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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“Monsters rising out of the mud”: From industrial wasteland to renegade art gallery
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May 24, 2017 |
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“What about the underdog?”: Dorothea Lange never stopped fighting for freedom
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May 11, 2017 |
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Before the A’s: The East Bay’s earliest baseball teams
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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“They knew it was a lie”: Exposing the cover-up behind Japanese-American mass incarceration
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Apr 03, 2017 |
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“Where are those ancestors now?”: How battles over sacred sites have revived Ohlone culture
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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Bruce Lee’s Oakland years: From a legendary fight to a new philosophy
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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America’s first sanctuary city: The missing chapter in a story of resistance
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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The East Bay punk explosion: How a scene rose from the ashes to create a music mecca
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Jan 25, 2017 |
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The rise and fall of the Oakland Ku Klux Klan
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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California’s only black whaling captain: William Shorey’s journey from sailor to celebrity
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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10,000 years of Oakland, 1 piece of land
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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“We were in liberation education”: Exploring the lost lessons of the Black Panthers’ school
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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From “one-hit wonder” to “legend”: 30 years later, a singer gets to re-live his dream
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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Goodbye to the “flying saucer”: Why many Oaklanders are taking the demolition of a diner personally
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Before “1984” & “Hunger Games”: How the first modern dystopian novel was born in Oakland sweatshops
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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I grew up in Oakland’s oldest cemetery
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Oct 29, 2016 |
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Oakland’s “lost” Latino neighborhood
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Oct 25, 2016 |
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“Celeste Guap is not the first”: A history of sexual abuse, the OPD, and a refugee community
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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From garages to galleries in Uptown
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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Oakland's oldest soul food chef doesn't want to quit
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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Oakland's first "celebrity" librarian
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Sep 23, 2016 |