Rightnowish
Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.
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These Artists Amplify 415 Day's Message of Resi...
Cereal For The Kids and Baghead celebrate San Francisco with this audio and visual love letter.
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Comedian Jackie Keliiaa on Keeping Tahoe Washoe
Cracking jokes about colonialism, Native culture and dating.
14 min
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Cheryl Dunye on Inventing a Film Genre
Queer cinema legend Cheryl Dunye has made Oakland her home since 2010. She talks about making film in the margins and how that led to the Dunyementary style.
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Sci Fi and Time Travel with Theo Hollingsworth
For the nerds, the 80s babies, and the dream chasers.
11 min
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Jon and Alba on the 'Heartbeat' of Film
Jon Warfield Harrison and Alba Roland Mejia on praying to the film Gods and listening to the heartbeat of film.
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Maya Cueva's Films on Reproductive Rights and I...
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Tongo Eisen-Martin on a Poet's Role in a Protest
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How Hip-Hop Led To Studying the Bay Area’s AIDS...
Antoine Johnson wants you to know it wasn’t just a 'gay white disease', Black women suffered from AIDS too.
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Rapper Champ Green Isn’t Stingy with the Rhythm...
You can't ignore it. The elephant in the room is love.
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Jada Imani on Vibing with Hawaiian Frogs and Ri...
Neo-soul and hip-hop artist Jada Imani talks astrology, 'high vibration clapbacks' and how music was her access to culture when she was a small girl in a small town.
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Soul Work and That ‘Bay Area Bounce’ with Artis...
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Nappy Nina on Becoming the Rap Bill Nye and Mis...
Nappy Nina is a dope lyricist with sultry-jazzy deliveries over Boom-Bap beats.
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Dale and Sunny: An East Oaklander and His Horse
Dale Johnson is an African American man from East Oakland who fell in love with some polo boots, and the sport of polo too.
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Breena Nuñez on Zines and Feeling Seen as an Af...
Through illustrations, Breena Nuñez draws the connection between African ancestry and Central American nationality.
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The Road to Reparations Through Black Genealogy
Young genealogist Alex Trapps-Chabala is filling a hole in the African American story
10 min
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The Parallel Lives of One Community Organizer a...
Community centers, community cleanups and Vincent Williams III's commitment to community empowerment.
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Family, Eritrea, and Berkeley at the Heart of “...
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Essential Work: Designing the End to Mass Incar...
Imagine if America simply didn't build more prisons, and instead designed places to restore justice.
11 min
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Election Anxiety? Laughter Gets Us Through with...
Need a laugh? Need some Joy? Step into the world of comic Luna Malbroux.
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Hunger Strikes, Prayer Dances and Protests: A P...
Denis Ivan Perez Bravo takes photos from the front lines of protests, and sometimes he even crosses that line.
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These Community Aunties Want Legendary Black Cr...
Tayleur and Maud created a collective to shine light on Black artists in the Bay Area; and it's all about relationships.
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Cat Brooks on Refunding the Community
Cat Brooks wants people dealing with mental health moments to get care, not cops.
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Yanni Will Eat You Up and Make You Love Yourself
Yanni Brump went from shy to center stage, and picked up many lessons on self-love along the way.
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The Townfolk Project, Documenting Oakland’s Com...
The Townfolk Project aims to document longtime residents of Oakland—and what the city means to them.
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The Abolitionist Fighting Sex Trafficking with ...
"You're not forgotten. You're not alone."
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