Aug 13 Cultivating the land to turn over a new leaf By Larisa Epatko Cathrine Sneed, founder of The Garden Project -- a farm-based education program for ex-offenders and at-risk youth -- says she isn’t teaching gardening so much as teaching people how to work. Continue reading
Jul 31 Batkid returns and he's stronger than ever By Justin Scuiletti While Batman celebrates his diamond jubilee this year, it was last November that a tinier black-caped crusader stole headlines. It was a wish come true for Batkid, aka Miles Scott, a 5-year-old in remission after a three-year battle with leukemia. Continue reading
Jul 25 I sing the book old-fashioned: Printing Whitman's masterpiece by hand By Cat Wise The Arion Press in San Francisco is one of the country’s last fine book printers creating limited edition, handmade books using centuries-old letterpress printing equipment. Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Documenting gay rights activists at dawn of the movement By PBS News Hour KQED presents a report on photographer Anthony Friedkin and his efforts to document gay life more than 40 years ago. Friedkin's photographs were ahead of their time and most galleries wouldn’t show them -- until now. The culmination of Friedkin’s… Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch News Wrap: 'Don't come back to Afghanistan,' Taliban fighter tells Bergdahl in video By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Former inmate speaks out against U.S. 'commitment' to mass incarceration By PBS News Hour During Michael Santos’ 26 years in federal prisons, he read books on history and law, earned undergraduate and master’s degrees and wrote seven books about the criminal justice system. Now, just six months after his release, Santos is imploring prisoners… Continue watching
Mar 20 Watch 7:35 New generation of tech innovations aims to help elders stay healthy and connected By PBS News Hour There’s a multi-billion-dollar market that has been largely overlooked by Silicon Valley. But a new wave of tech startups have begun developing products for seniors and their caregivers, from redesigning canes and pill boxes, to a web-based app that helps… Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch How private tech industry buses became a symbol of the economic divide in San Francisco By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 08 Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 missing at sea By Kayla Ruble Rescue crews from multiple countries were still searching on Sunday for a Malaysia Airlines plane missing off the southern coast of Vietnam -- more than 20 hours after the Boeing 777-200 aircraft carrying 239 people vanished early Saturday morning. Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch San Francisco's last working-class neighborhood gets left behind in boom times By PBS News Hour As a new wave of tech enterprises gentrify San Francisco’s older, modest neighborhoods, an area known as the Tenderloin, populated by the city’s poorer residents, remains in the grips of drugs and crime. Special correspondent Spencer Michels explores the dilemma… Continue watching