Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.
Barbed Wire at the Border Brings Back Memories ...
Memories of Internment; Childcare Saves a Family; The Fight Over Police Use of Deadly Force; Legal Cannabis' Impact on Farming
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Living In and Out of the Box
A Fantasy World Made of Cardboard Boxes; Bringing up Baby in a Tiny House; What Box Do you Check?; Transgender Prisoners
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The Hidden History of Slavery in California
An Afro-Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker; The Ghost of Mary Ellen Pleasant; A Slave Auction in Los Angeles?; Indigenous Red Market
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How One Woman’s Search for Her Homeless Mother ...
Robin Burton started out trying to find her mom. But the search morphed into something else: a mission to help other people who are homeless and missing too.
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Do You Really Want to Know? One Man’s Search fo...
Forty-one years ago this week, more than 900 people died in a mass suicide in Jonestown, a remote settlement in South America. This documentary follows a Bay Area man who unravels the tangled family history that binds him to that tragedy.
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What Is the California Dream, and Is it Still A...
Prison-to-College Pipeline, Prop 13’s Impact on the CA Dream, Letter to My CA Dreamer, a Dream Shaped By Water
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Living Through Wildfire and Facing a New Normal
A Mind Scarred by Wildfire, Survivors Struggle to Find Housing, Radio Station Relays Fire Info in Indigenous Languages
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The Thin Place
A paramedic and ER nurse from Northern California may himself be a conduit between the living and the dead.
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A ‘Nest’ for Migrant Kids at the Border – and a...
Tijuana’s First Early Childhood Education Center…Affiliated With a Migrant Shelter, Fictional Podcast ‘Moonface’ Explores Being Korean and Queer, Alums of Iranian Jewish School Reunite 40 Years Later
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Special Ed for California’s Black Students Was ...
A landmark ruling in 1977 changed special education for black students in California. But many educators, black parents and advocates say plenty remains broken.
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These Five People Challenge the Notion of Blind...
The world of mollusk, a master in tinkering, guitarist Ioana Gandrabur, an architect who listens to buildings and designing how products sound.
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Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hiv...
It has been almost 30 years since Aerial Gilbert lost her sight. In that time she’s relearned just about everything she used to do before going blind — and she did it through the power of sound.
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How Heat Threatens California’s Most Vulnerable
Climate change is making it hotter everywhere in California. And heat can be a sneaky threat to our health and safety. It’s getting more dangerous, and deadly - even in parts of California you wouldn’t expect.
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Spicing Up Seniors’ Sex Lives – and Getting a S...
Author and Dance Teacher’s Mission to Redefine Aging, Rocky Road Ice Cream’s Bumpy History, Singer Mike Marshall’s Second Chance, Letter to My California Dreamer
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Three Transgender Opera Singers on the Risks Th...
Elliot Franks, Lucia Lucas and Breanna Sinclairé have taken enormous risks to live their most authentic lives. And they’ve navigated an industry that has been slow to evolve with the times.
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Vallejo in the Spotlight After Fatal Police Sho...
Police shootings of Black and Latino men have sparked protests across California and the nation. The East Bay city of Vallejo is also grappling with officer-involved shootings. Community members there are asking for accountability, and demanding answers.
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An Ode to the Tumbleweeds and Driveway Barbeque...
Young Central Valley Mariachi Heads to Harvard; Finding Love After Alzheimer’s; Susan Straight’s “In the Country of Women”; Letter to My Dreamer: Lake County Farm
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As Students Struggle With Anxiety, a California...
Some schools are teaching kids how to deal with the physical and mental impacts of anxiety.
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The Cave Woman of India: Tracing My Scars as an...
In this personal story, KQED's Sandhya Dirks takes us back to her mother's India -- to a tell a story about inherited trauma, mental illness, and South Asian history.
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A Road Trip to Some of California’s Hidden Gems
This summer, forget the tourist traps and come along with us on a sonic journey to explore some of California’s out-of-the-way, cool spots that make this place we call home so unique.
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Missing and Homeless: How a Woman’s Search for ...
Robin Burton may never find her mother, but she’s made quite a few friends during her search. That's because she launched a Facebook group called 'Missing & Homeless' that now has more than 63,000 members.
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An Unlikely Suspect: On the Trail of a Northern...
It took two years to track down the Capay Valley arsonist. He was convicted of 12 counts of arson, but he's suspected of setting 152 fires over the course of 18 years.
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She Strived to Be the Perfect Mom and Landed in...
Motherhood was going great for Lisa Abramson, until the walls started talking to her. But she said being in the hospital made her feel more crazy.
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Golden State Plate – The Backstory Behind Calif...
Pricey and Potent Pisco Punch, The Birth of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, The Complex Origin of Fortune Cookies, The Ranch Behind Hidden Valley Ranch
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Challenging Inequality in One of California’s M...
Taking on Big Oil; World’s First LGBTQ Mariachi; Coffee Co-Op; Activist Caregiver