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A young woman with heavy brunette bangs and a high ponytail plays an electric guitar in a studio. She is singing into a mounted microphone next to a white man in a white shirt, who is also singing.

San Francisco’s 1960s and ’70s Music Scene Takes Center Stage in New Docuseries

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Three Black men stand together smiling. The first wears an Adidas jacket and a peasant hat, the second wears a sports jacket, open shirt and gold necklace, the third is wearing a sweater.

E-40, Too Short, Chuck D and More Rap Legends on Their Early Hip-Hop Influences

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A Black woman in a Red Cross uniform from the 1940s era.

The Red Cross Nurse and Shipyard Welder Who Served Long After World War II

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An old wooden building with people sitting at tables out front.

Legends of Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, the Oldest Bar in Oakland

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A red sweater covered with rows of white sheep, with a single black sheep, hangs inside a perspex box, mounted a wall next to a photo of Princess Diana wearing the sweater at an outdoor event. A woman stands to the left gazing at both.

Princess Diana’s Iconic Sheep Sweater Could Fetch at Least $50,000 at Auction

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‘When Crack Was King’ Follows Four People Who Lived Through the Drug Epidemic

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A man in a denim jacket and cap talks to the camera in front of the Bay Bridge

Seeing San Francisco Through a Skateboarder’s Eyes

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Four men, six women and a child, all dressed in Victorian era clothing sit and stand on a rocky outcrop.

Victorians Sure Liked Blowing Up Islands in the Bay Back in the Day

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A senior Black woman with white hair and smart spectacles sits in a chair with an event dining table behind her. She is wearing an Africa-inspired print and neck scarf.

The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre Publishes a Memoir

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5 Historic San Francisco Gay Bars We Wish Still Existed

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5 Historic San Francisco Lesbian Bars We Wish Still Existed

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A woman with cropped blond hair stands in front of a mirror, arm bent behind her neck.

In ‘Blue Jean,’ a Nuanced Picture of Life as a Lesbian in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain

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