13 May

Photo Essay, Karina Guadalupe   On Saturday April 3oth, Richmond residents and volunteers met at the 800 Block of 6th Street to make a difference in the Iron Triangle by planting trees. This...

12 May

Commentary, Nancy Ybarra I’ve lived in Richmond for as long as I can remember. Central is the hood I grew up in. I attended Richmond High School, but then...

05 May

Public schools in Richmond, Ca have for years been under fire for academically underperforming.  The city has even struggled to keep kids in the classroom, to the extent that last October,...

05 May

Video, Nancy Ybarra, Malcolm Marshall Music: Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin//Florida by Diplo Richmond, CA – On May 13th and 14th, 2011, Fix the Cycle: a collaboration between members of...

01 May

Video, Karina Guadalupe, Min Lee EDITORS' NOTE: On Earth Day 2011, the City of Richmond, Calif. promoted its residential food scrap program, in which the contents of green curbside bins...

29 Apr

News Report, Tania Pulido///Video, Tania Pulido, Min Lee RICHMOND, Ca   -- On March 22, 2011, a group of community artists, civil rights advocates, educators and young people assembled at Richmond...

22 Apr
Video, Malcolm Marshall EDITOR'S NOTE: This Passover and Holy Week, faith communities and interfaith organizations came together for a vigil at the West Contra Costa County Detention Facility to shine a light on the suffering of immigrants detained there who have been torn away from their families and await deportation proceedings.
19 Apr

Story, Donny Lumpkins//Video, Malcolm Marshall, Donny Lumpkins RICHMOND, Calif. -- It’s raining in the Iron Triangle. A skinny white pit bull, with no collar or tags, is running down the...

16 Apr

News Report, Donny Lumpkins/Video, Ann Bassette, Donny Lumpkins RICHMOND, Calif.—For Richmond’s low-income families, for whom the threat of homelessness is an ever-present reality, a free meal or rent money between jobs...

EDITOR'S NOTE:  Ervin Coley III, 21, was one of three young Black men from North Richmond gunned down over a 72-hour period earlier this month.  The killings were allegedly caused...

06 Apr

Video, Min Lee Motivated by the memory of Cesar Chavez and his contributions to the farmworkers' movement, residents of Richmond, California came together to revitalize the intersection of Florida Avenue and...

Editors' Note: A portion of the April 3 broadcast of Street Soldiers - a weekly call-in radio program on KMEL - was devoted to a discussion about a...

05 Apr

Editors' Note: Over a 72-hour period last week, 3 young men - all from North Richmond - were murdered. The rash of violence sparked this reaction from one...

18 Mar

News Report, Tania Pulido In a time of turmoil around the world, the sense of sisterhood is essential to the struggle faced by oppressed people. When I grew up in Richmond, the...

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