Refugee Kids Say the Best Way to Solve Problems Is Soccer
In the city of El Cajon, hundreds of young soccer fanatics from around the globe are in training. They're united in their quest for improved technique: perfecting the art of the back pass, the effective header, the incisive scissor kick. But soccer is also helping refugee kids feel confident in a time of uncertainty.
Bay Area Kids Find Joy, Community in Junior Musicals
Musicals are in the air. "Hamilton" is on Broadway and "La La Land" is on the big screen. It feels like the genre itself is being rewritten. So we visited a first of its kind West Coast conference in Sacramento, for the smallest musical theater performers, to learn what's drawing them in.
Two Bay Area Startups Push for Diversity in Kids' Lit
Think of the best-known children's books -- "Matilda" or "Captain Underpants," or "Where The Wild Things Are." They're all by white authors and have white protagonists. We explore how a couple of Bay Area-based publishers are working to make kid-lit much more reflective of diverse families and experiences.
Farming Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-Americans Reflect on Wartime Incarceration
President Trump is still standing behind his executive order banning people from seven mostly Muslim countries. That order, and his talk about a Muslim registry, has sparked a lot of opposition, especially in California. One particularly vocal group: Japanese-Americans. Some of them have long memories of being incarcerated during World War II in what were called "relocation" or "internment" camps. The executive order authorizing that internment was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, 75 years ago this month. We joined a busload of people traveling to one of those camps, the former Tule Lake Segregation Center, just south of the Oregon border in Modoc County. For the series California Foodways, we find out how farming was linked to the incarceration of Japanese-Americans.