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How One Woman’s Search for Her Homeless Mother Became a Mission to Help Others Nov 30, 2019

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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 for Family From Jonestown and Beyond Nov 23, 2019

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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 Alive? Nov 16, 2019

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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 Nov 09, 2019

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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 Nov 01, 2019

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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 an Unusual High School Reunion Oct 26, 2019

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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 Supposed to Be Fixed by This Landmark Case. It Wasn’t Oct 19, 2019

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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 Blindness as a Deficit Oct 12, 2019

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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 Hives Happy Oct 04, 2019

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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 Sep 28, 2019

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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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