How An Unhoused San Francisco Resident Navigates a New Era of Street Enforcement
Recently, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at fundamentally changing how the country addresses homelessness. The order promises to crack down on street homelessness across the country, in part by institutionalizing people with mental illness. Here in California, Governor Gavin Newsom has criticized Trump’s recent order, while at the same time encouraging a more punitive approach to getting people off the streets. There’s so much debate around the issue, but we rarely hear from the unhoused people at the center of this controversy. Vanessa Rancaño introduces us to Armando Herrera. He once had a family, a house and a job, but he has been living on the streets of San Francisco for the past decade.
Love Behind Bars: A Bay Area Scholar Navigates Marriage to a Man Serving a Life Sentence
Our series of conversations about resilience continues with Dr. Shanice Robinson. She’s a visiting assistant professor at San Francisco State. Resilience is central to her scholarly work, which focuses on the school-to-prison pipeline, and to her advocacy work with incarcerated people. It’s also core to her personal experience as a self-described “prison wife” whose husband is serving multiple life sentences in prison.
Fresno Youth Are Singing New Life into Timeless Mariachi Classics
For a lot of kids, summertime means camp. And there’s a camp for almost everything: sports, nature, arts, robotics. This summer, a group of Fresno teens got a chance to study a musical genre they have a deep cultural connection to. And they got to put their own spin on it. Reporter Esther Quintanilla with the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative and KVPR takes us to a rehearsal of Mariachi Unidos.
