“The queen of the West Coast blues”
Sugar Pie DeSanto serves up sweet & spicy stories
Oakland
“I believe in the elders”
Pendarvis Harshaw on gathering OG wisdom
“What about the underdog?”
Dorothea Lange never stopped fighting for freedom
“They knew it was a lie”
Exposing the cover-up behind Japanese-American mass incarceration
“Where are those ancestors now?”
How battles over sacred sites have revived Ohlone culture
Bruce Lee’s Oakland years
From a legendary fight to a new philosophy
The rise and fall of the Oakland Ku Klux Klan
"They didn’t need to hide anymore"
California’s only black whaling captain
William Shorey’s journey from sailor to celebrity
10,000 years of Oakland, 1 piece of land
From colonization to redlining to rebranding