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"content": "\u003cp>They may be cute, but don’t pet or feed your local squirrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the North Bay learned this the hard way this month after squirrel attacks in one neighborhood sent at least three people to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe and Marie Ayoob were examining a newly-trimmed tree in their San Rafael backyard earlier this month when they first laid eyes on a friendly-looking squirrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She kept on coming towards us, and we thought that was kind of interesting, because they usually run away,” Ayoob recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The squirrel jumped up on the ledge of the couple’s wooden fence, close enough for Marie to snap a photo. Then, things got dicey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The squirrel began gnawing at the fence, chipping away big chunks of wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe yelled for it to scram and swatted at it with his baseball cap, his wife said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057644\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250925-SQUIRREL-ATTACK-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250925-SQUIRREL-ATTACK-02.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250925-SQUIRREL-ATTACK-02-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marie Ayoob snapped this photo of a squirrel in her background in San Rafael on Sept. 25, 2025, before it attacked her husband. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Marie Ayoob )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She jumped on his head, scratched his ear and then landed on his leg,” Marie said. “He pushed her off, and she finally scurried away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple went to the emergency room to make sure the scratches weren’t dangerous. Squirrels don’t carry rabies, she was told, and Joe was sent home with a clean bill of health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the next day, the same squirrel, they said, returned to the scene of the crime — to chomp at a mop lying in the Ayoobs’ backyard — and, it seems, terrorize other neighbors in the Lucas Valley neighborhood north of San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A flyer posted around the neighborhood, notifying residents of a “very mean squirrel,” warned, “This is not a joke five people have been attacked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Heblack was out for her usual morning walk last Sunday when she felt something heavy glom onto her leg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t see it come from anywhere, I wasn’t by any trees or bushes — I was walking in the middle of the street,” she told KQED. “I was trying to bat it off, but it wouldn’t get off. It just clung more, and I was swinging my leg around and screaming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she jogged home, told her husband and went to the emergency room to get the bleeding scratches on her legs examined. Heblack was prescribed an antibiotic for her wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heblack said that she had heard from a neighbor that a day before her attack, another woman was bitten by — they believe — the same squirrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard about that incident, and it happened on the [same] street, but I just thought, ‘It’s not going to happen to me.’”[aside postID=news_12042615 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/E.-CSL-Quly-left-and-Togozees_release_8-4-23_photo-by-Bill-Hunnewell-%C2%A9-The-Marine-Mammal-Center-2-1020x754.jpg']Heblack said she was fine after the incident, and returned to her regular walking route that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal experts in Marin County say that a squirrel gone wild isn’t actually as unusual as people might think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this happen before,” said Alison Hermance, the director of marketing for WildCare, a wildlife hospital in the North Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is almost certainly a young squirrel that had probably fallen from his nest, landed on the ground [and] was found by people who took him in and tried to raise him themselves,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The squirrel likely got used to being fed and cared for, and ended up confused when it returned to the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As he got older, got more squirrely, the animal either escaped from the caretakers or they decided to let him go … and the squirrel doesn’t understand what has changed,” Hermance said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the squirrel doesn’t immediately understand why others aren’t feeding it, and will likely take matters into its own hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The squirrel will jump on the person, clawing at them, biting them, desperate for the food that they are expecting a human to provide,” Hermance explained. “It’s actually a really sad situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, a clear “lesson of why you shouldn’t feed wildlife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The date was Nov. 10, 2008. Barack Obama had just become America’s first Black president. A new artist named Lady Gaga had released her debut album\u003cem>. \u003c/em>The U.S. was just one month from an official recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, the city’s Stonestown Galleria mall was brimming with the anxious energy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/11/10/twilight-star-robert-pattinson-sparks-pandemonium-at-stonestown-galleria-in-s-f/\">three thousand fans\u003c/a> of the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series by Stephenie Meyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd had gathered to meet the actor playing the lead in a brand-new movie adaptation: Robert Pattinson. But only the first few hundred would be able to actually meet the aloof British actor — who wasn’t yet a star \u003cem>— \u003c/em>in the mall’s relatively tiny Hot Topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2008/11/10/bloodsuckers-trample-kids-at-twilight-signing/\">As TMZ reported\u003c/a>, mayhem ensued as attendees began pushing forward, hoping to be the lucky first few. In what ABC 7 described as \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/archive/7108032/\">“near rioting,” \u003c/a>the crowd collided, with fans being trampled and one girl reportedly breaking her nose. The event was promptly canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entertainment outlet TMZ reported on the Stonestown Galleria ‘Twilight’ fan incident in 2008. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via TMZ.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember seeing the girl on the news, ‘I love ‘\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>’ so much,’ blood coming out of her nostrils,” Pattinson — who has admittedly owned up \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/news/robert-pattinson-lied-interview-clown-death-explosion-1236234848/\">to lying in press interviews out of boredom\u003c/a> — told \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/robert-pattinson-recalls-stonestown-mall-riot-and-getting-weird-in-lighthouse\">SFGATE in 2019\u003c/a>. “It was spectacular, you couldn’t have paid for better promotion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throwing caution to the wind, Stonestown Galleria dared to hold another \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>meet-and-greet the following year to celebrate the release of the sequel, \u003cem>New Moon\u003c/em>, featuring two members of the supporting cast. Relying on \u003ca href=\"https://abc7chicago.com/archive/7108032/\">extra security\u003c/a>, the mall avoided a repeat of the 2008 crush.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\">\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>-themed events around the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the fans in attendance, 16-year-old Kathalina Lopez of Richmond, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/twilight-stars-thrill-hundreds-in-s-f-3281369.php\">SFGate\u003c/a> that \u003cem>she \u003c/em>heard the girl who got hurt in 2008 got to meet Pattinson that day after all. “I want to get trampled now,” Lopez said wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest installment of the “Twilight” movie series comes out later this month. And one of the stars, Kellan Lutz, signed an autograph in the parking lot of the Stonestown Mall in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. \u003ccite>(\tSan Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Contributor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This October will mark 20 years since Meyer’s first \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book was published, spawning three more novels and launching the wildly popular film franchise starring Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. In honor of the anniversary, \u003ca href=\"#thefilmswillreturntotheaters\"> the films will return to theaters, accompanied by\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\"> a host of \u003cem>Twilight-\u003c/em>themed events locally that include\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/twilight-in-concert-san-jose-california-09-26-2025/event/1C0062B0B14A5BA2\"> a San Jose screening on Friday, accompanied by a live orchestra.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here in the Bay Area, affection for the vampire romance saga — and the meaning fans drew from it — never truly died.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Twenty years of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The initial fandom sparked by Meyer’s books — following shy teen Bella Swan as she falls in love with brooding fellow student Edward, who is in fact a century-old vampire — went supernova in 2008 with the release of the first film adaptation, \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>.[aside postID=arts_13981344 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Bullitt-at-Presidio-Sundown-Cinema_6.14.2024_Marlene-Sanchez_-_19.png']Directed by Catherine Hardwicke of rebellious-\u003ca href=\"https://girlsontopstees.com/en-us/blogs/read-me/we-owe-our-girlhood-to-catherine-hardwicke?srsltid=AfmBOooCke_bhQWQDwLyYYj05Go5kGnPAknUBhoOLxlCf-YMH0O3IZJA\">girlhood blueprint \u003cem>Thirteen\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the movie’s mix of longing, emo-meets-goth-meets-Livejournal-entry \u003ca href=\"https://www.instyle.com/twilight-bella-swan-fall-fashion-trend-tiktok-8719317\">aesthetics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@letterboxd/video/7534776041483635998\">2000s aquamarine filters \u003c/a>immediately found its audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years that followed, four more sequels from three different (male) directors ensued through 2012, bringing plots that expanded beyond supernatural high school romance into European vampire cabals and werewolf battles. The saga also ignited \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/70143860\">a paranormal\u003c/a> romance trend and launched the careers of Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, whose doomed \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/kristen-stewart-robert-pattinson-relationship-timeline-7503049\">real-life romance\u003c/a> only fueled fans’ feverish interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, the films’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/twilight-renaissance\">popular resurgence\u003c/a> arrived during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic — and boosted hugely by the availability of all five movies on streaming platforms when most of the United States was under stay-at-home orders. As my San Francisco friend Jenny George notes, suddenly, many more people could relate to the scene in \u003cem>New Moon\u003c/em>, where a forlorn Bella sits statue-still in her room as the months and seasons pass by her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/twilightreborn/status/1366175454042931203\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of how [depression] goes sometimes,” George, who recalls streaming the movies back-to-back during lockdown. “I thought it was a pretty astute way to show how empty she was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media during this period had evolved into something very different from the 2010s landscape the movies were first born into, with Twitter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8jotfjccyjv11.jpg\">Tumblr\u003c/a>, Reddit and \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@roppongi52/video/7540858691138931981\">TikTok \u003c/a>generating and spreading \u003ca href=\"https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThqxr0gbZ2RR871ex22ujpShKu0_Px4_ILpg&s\">memes \u003c/a>like wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mushypeagirl/status/1241092850844082182\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the movies – achingly sincere and embracing the rollercoaster of emotions that come with being a teenager in love – were a goldmine for social media content: Edward declaring, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHse6q92lb0\">“This is the skin of a killer, Bella.”\u003c/a> A vampires-play-baseball scene soundtracked to Muse’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMLXZsJ1P8\">“Supermassive Blackhole”\u003c/a>. An uncanny CGI \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgI_oMMIU0E\">vampire-human hybrid baby\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@caiticlare89/video/7302233520729115935\" data-video-id=\"7302233520729115935\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@caiticlare89\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@caiticlare89?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@caiticlare89\u003c/a> Mask off \u003ca title=\"titussburgess\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/titussburgess?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#titussburgess\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"tituss\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/tituss?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#tituss\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilight\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilight?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilight\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilightsaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilightsaga?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilightsaga\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilighttiktok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilighttiktok?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilighttiktok\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"renesmee\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/renesmee?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#renesmee\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bellaswan\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bellaswan?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#bellaswan\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"edwardcullen\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/edwardcullen?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#edwardcullen\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"jacobblack\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/jacobblack?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#jacobblack\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Bleak Salvation\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7302233522868161310?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – Bleak Salvation\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga was seen as something of a camp masterpiece. \u003ca href=\"https://buggirl200.com/blogs/news/a-t-shirt-shop-for-the-semi-ironic-twilight-fan\">Semi-ironic\u003c/a> merchandise sold out online. Rowdy drag screenings took over venues like San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/twilight-2008/\">Roxie Theater\u003c/a>. Even \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMJaXuRe/\">Pattinson, a famous hater of his own franchise,\u003c/a> gave credit to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/robert-pattinson-interview-twilight-soundtracks-8505754/\">its excellent soundtrack\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> fan Sophie Kim, an assistant producer at KQED, noted that fans who were too young when the movies first came out are now selling old \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> items on resale app Depop “like it’s Balenciaga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from Olivia Rodrigo displaying an Edward and Bella-themed purse. \u003ccite>(Olivia Rodrigo/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Vicky Chung, who grew up watching the movies in Sunnyvale theaters, has the books on her desk and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bexterhexter/video/7530218141532622102\">“Where the hell have you been loca?”\u003c/a> mug in hand, proudly: because people just \u003cem>get it\u003c/em> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no point in feeling a little guilty about my guilty pleasure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Reclaiming \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the movies making billions of dollars upon release, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2008/11/10/bloodsuckers-trample-kids-at-twilight-signing/\">contemporary coverage\u003c/a> of moments like the 2008 Stonestown Galleria incident exemplifies how the mostly young, mostly female “Twihard” fandom was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.flowjournal.org/2009/12/rabid-obsessed-and-frenzied-understanding-twilight-fangirls-and-the-gendered-politics-of-fandom-melissa-click-university-of-missouri/\">mocked or derided\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrying signs that read \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jul/29/comic-con-2009-revenge-nerds\">“\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> has RUINED Comic-Con,” \u003c/a>male comic book fans protested the Twihards at the annual San Diego fandom convention — unaware that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/cjsocrayzee/status/1943795663227302259?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Pattinson would cross over into their fandom \u003c/a>to become \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_(film)\">their Batman \u003c/a>within a mere 13 years. And KQED’s Kim, who grew up in Orange County, recalled that growing up, for every girl reading the book in her school cafeteria to look “really mysterious,” there was a teenage boy mocking her interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@netflixlat/video/7351273567100734726\" data-video-id=\"7351273567100734726\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@netflixlat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@netflixlat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@netflixlat\u003c/a> Esta escena es icónica en cualquier idioma 🐺 \u003ca title=\"crepusculo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/crepusculo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Crepusculo\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"lunanueva\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lunanueva?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LunaNueva\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"crepusculolunanueva\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/crepusculolunanueva?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CrepusculoLunaNueva\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilight\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilight?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Twilight\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilightnewmoon\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilightnewmoon?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TwilightNewMoon\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"jacob\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/jacob?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Jacob\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"jacobblack\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/jacobblack?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JacobBlack\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bella\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bella?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bella\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bellaswan\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bellaswan?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BellaSwan\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"loca\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/loca?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Loca\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"wherehaveyoubeenloca\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/wherehaveyoubeenloca?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WhereHaveYouBeenLoca\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"meme\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/meme?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Meme\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"idiomas\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/idiomas?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Idiomas\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"tiktokmehizover\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/tiktokmehizover?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TikTokMeHizoVer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"peliculas\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/peliculas?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Peliculas\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"netflix\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/netflix?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Netflix\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"parati\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/parati?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ParaTi\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Dónde rayos te has metido loca. Crepúsculo. - Netflix Latinoamérica\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/D%C3%B3nde-rayos-te-has-metido-loca-Crep%C3%BAsculo-7351273603133917958?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Dónde rayos te has metido loca. Crepúsculo. – Netflix Latinoamérica\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the intervening years, culture enjoyed by young women and their mothers became (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O06tMbIKh0\">something) less of a popular punching bag\u003c/a>. 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221483930/girl-economy-taylor-swift-beyonce-barbie-2023\">was even declared\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/article/2023-girl-trends-barbie\">some outlets\u003c/a> as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4l5yHdpT-b/\">‘Year of The Girl,’\u003c/a> in recognition of the phenomenal cultural — and economic — impact of \u003cem>Barbie,\u003c/em> along with high-grossing stadium tours from Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. The \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga was, Kim said, “just too ahead of its time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eden Crowhurst growing up in Livermore, right, Twilight memorabilia from KQED’s Vicky Chung, left. \u003ccite>(Darren Tu/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Twilight’\u003c/em>s popular reclamation has also been driven in large part by recognition of its queer credentials. Actor Stewart, who came out as queer in 2017, told \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/features/kristen-stewart-coming-out-twilight-gay-sundance-sex-scenes-1235867627/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that “it’s such a gay movie,” and that its themes of dangerous desire are “a very Gothic, gay inclination that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daly City artist and \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>fan Amie Sarazan agrees wholeheartedly, calling the series “a foundational work of bisexual panic.” For Sarazan, the saga is “at once, this pop cultural juggernaut and also this bizarre indie movie that shouldn’t be as weird as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from buggirl200brand of a Twilight-themed shirt.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarazan, a costume designer for stars like Trixie Mattel and Peaches Christ, watches the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>movies on a loop while sewing for their drag clientele. And for their birthday last year, they convinced Bay Area collective \u003ca href=\"https://mediameltdown.tv/\">Media Meltdown\u003c/a> to turn the retro 4-Star Theater in San Francisco’s Richmond District into an adoring \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>drag tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the party, performer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cheetahbiscotti/?hl=en\">Cheetah Biscotti\u003c/a> strutted down the aisle, ripping off their shirt like the scorned werewolf Jacob Black. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/piranha_psychotronica/?hl=en\">Piranha Psychotronica\u003c/a> touched Sarazan’s hand and read their mind – mimicking the saga’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZrvflNZPCM\">unhinged villain Aro \u003c/a>portrayed by Martin Sheen – as \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>erotica blared in the background. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kafka.drag/?hl=en\">Kafka X\u003c/a> bit Sarazan’s neck, making them “forever 39.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarazan was even dressed as Vampire Bella herself in a dark navy blue dress with tinted sunglasses to mimic blood-red eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12057509 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from Amie Sarazan’s ‘Twilight’-themed birthday photoshoot. Photo provided by Nicole Fraser-Herron.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Sarazan cued up that night’s screening: the fourth installment of the saga, \u003cem>Breaking Dawn: Part 1. \u003c/em>They recall being “in full delight” watching their friends scream during the film’s wilder moments, including a pregnant Bella receiving an emergency C-section from her vampire husband using his teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because my experience in a female body has been one of body horror,” they said, “I like to inflict that on my friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Twilight’ as text\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Twenty years after the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series was released into the world, the novels and the movies they spawned have also become the focus of academic study — opening up the thornier aspects of the saga to critical appraisal from fans and students alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent graduate Eden Crowhurst, who taught a student class on the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga at UC Berkeley, said she was compelled to create this course after seeing franchises deemed more “acceptable for boys to read” be the center of other classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowhurst, whose appreciation for the saga was cultivated by her \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>-loving family, wanted to prove that a series with a mostly female fanbase could be discussed in an academic sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, for many, \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is a truly \u003ca href=\"https://womensenews.org/2025/06/watching-twilight-in-a-post-roe-america-hits-differently/\">loaded text\u003c/a>, with a lot to dissect even after all of these years, she said — everything from innocence and love to sex and chastity, interwoven with themes from Meyer’s own Mormon faith. There’s also an upholding of whiteness – especially among vampires, who are described as incredibly pale and beautiful – and the depictions of an indigenous tribe that Meyer “Christianizes” in “every sense of the word,” Crowhurst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@dantehotsauce/video/7420595982489947422\" data-video-id=\"7420595982489947422\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@dantehotsauce\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@dantehotsauce?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dantehotsauce\u003c/a> i cant escape mormonism \u003ca title=\"twilight\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilight?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilight\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilightsaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilightsaga?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilightsaga\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Originalton - moetdaddy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Originalton-7317970034784422689?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Originalton – moetdaddy\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting the “perfect bad media” aspect of \u003cem>Twilight’s \u003c/em>resurgence, Crowhurst stresses the escapism inherent in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O06tMbIKh0\">much-derided romance genre\u003c/a> of which the series is a part, despite its horror trappings. It’s no accident that the series found true popularity during the 2008 recession, she said — with hero Edward providing a fantasy of protecting Bella physically and financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Romance is the one place where women can really be like, ‘No, this is what I want,'” Crowhurst said. “And \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is kind of the blueprint for these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crowhurst wants her fellow students to critically engage with \u003cem>Twilight’\u003c/em>s myriad contradictions, too. “It’s such a weird book series because again, it toes the line,” she said. “The reception can be feminist, but also the content is very conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, for Crowhurst, this complexity holds true for the saga’s legacy itself. “People take \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>nowadays more seriously — and less seriously,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How you can observe 20 years of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Internalize the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>vibe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, listen to Sarazan: Washington-set \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is not a “Halloween movie” but \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGLNDuhTc0\">“a rainy season movie”\u003c/a> — and the Bay has \u003cem>plenty \u003c/em>of gloomy,\u003cem> “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-XUZgrCCjzo\">\u003cem>hoa-hoa-hoa-hoa\u003c/em>\u003c/a>” brooding spots here if you want to observe the 20th anniversary properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">round-up of spaces\u003c/a> perfect for overcast days, including Tomales Bay in Point Reyes and the eucalyptus groves in El Granada. Just be sure to bring your \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/ASVP-Shop-Original-Twilight-Filter/dp/B0CDNMYZM7\">\u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>filter lens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"thefilmswillreturntotheaters\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Attend a \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> movie screening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To mark the 20th anniversary of the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series’ publication, studio Lionsgate is \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reel/1185872683714959\">bringing\u003c/a> the entire \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>series back to theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major chains across the Bay Area are showing each movie in \u003cem>The Twilight Saga\u003c/em>, mostly from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/amc-metreon-16-aanem/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">AMC Metreon 16\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>East Bay screenings:\u003c/em> AMC Bay Street 16 in Emeryville; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-hilltop-16-aaqal/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-11-02\">Cinemark Century Hilltop 16\u003c/a> in Richmond; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-bayfair-mall-16-aapic/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-11-02\">Cinemark Century Bayfair Mall 16\u003c/a> in San Leandro; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-at-hayward-aavac/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Hayward; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-walnut-creek-14-and-xd-aarar/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Walnut Creek 14\u003c/a> in Walnut Creek; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-downtown-pleasant-hill-16-and-xd-aaqam/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Downtown Pleasant Hill 16\u003c/a> in Pleasant Hill; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-union-landing-25-and-xd-aanay/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Union City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC NewPark 12\u003c/a> in Newark; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Brentwood 14\u003c/a> in Brentwood; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/regal-hacienda-crossings-screenx-imax-and-rpx-aaopk/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Regal Hacienda Crossings\u003c/a> in Dublin; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-vallejo-14-aapis/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Vallejo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>North Bay screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/regal-edwards-fairfield-and-imax-aandk/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Regal Edwards\u003c/a> in Fairfield; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-great-mall-20-xd-and-screenx-aapcg/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Great Mall\u003c/a> in Milpitas; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-napa-valley-and-xd-aawtt/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Napa\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>South Bay screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-daly-city-20-xd-and-imax-aaqlt/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Daly City 20\u003c/a> in Daly City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinemark.com/theatres/ca-san-mateo/cinemark-century-san-mateo-12\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in San Mateo; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinepolis-luxury-cinemas-san-mateo-aayrv/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas\u003c/a> in San Mateo; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-redwood-downtown-20-and-xd-aaubf/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Redwood City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Mercado 20\u003c/a> in Santa Clara; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-mountain-view-16-aacfx/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Mountain View; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-at-pacific-commons-and-xd-aawqb/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century at Pacific Commons\u003c/a> in Fremont; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Saratoga 14\u003c/a> in San Jose; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Eastridge 15\u003c/a> in San Jose\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d like to host your own screening, be prepared to pay around $4 for an online rental: the movies have \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/twilight-leaving-netflix-where-watch-163000433.html\">recently been pulled from Netflix\u003c/a>. But according to KQED Education’s own Janelle Kim, this could be a great opportunity for a drinking game. Her suggestions include: a shot every time a vampire sparkles, or when Kristen Stewart has a dramatic Acting Moment (screaming Jacob’s name, scoffing, etc.) Try not to pass out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Go to a \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> concert or party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Twilight in Concert\u003c/em>, with live orchestra accompaniment, has a San Jose stop on Sept. 26. Tickets range from \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/twilight-in-concert-san-jose-california-09-26-2025/event/1C0062B0B14A5BA2\">$59 to $253\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNEzBPIJFnr/\">The Midway\u003c/a> in San Francisco is holding a \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>rave on Oct. 18. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2008/11/10/bloodsuckers-trample-kids-at-twilight-signing/\">As TMZ reported\u003c/a>, mayhem ensued as attendees began pushing forward, hoping to be the lucky first few. In what ABC 7 described as \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/archive/7108032/\">“near rioting,” \u003c/a>the crowd collided, with fans being trampled and one girl reportedly breaking her nose. The event was promptly canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TMZ_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entertainment outlet TMZ reported on the Stonestown Galleria ‘Twilight’ fan incident in 2008. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via TMZ.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember seeing the girl on the news, ‘I love ‘\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>’ so much,’ blood coming out of her nostrils,” Pattinson — who has admittedly owned up \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/news/robert-pattinson-lied-interview-clown-death-explosion-1236234848/\">to lying in press interviews out of boredom\u003c/a> — told \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/robert-pattinson-recalls-stonestown-mall-riot-and-getting-weird-in-lighthouse\">SFGATE in 2019\u003c/a>. “It was spectacular, you couldn’t have paid for better promotion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throwing caution to the wind, Stonestown Galleria dared to hold another \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>meet-and-greet the following year to celebrate the release of the sequel, \u003cem>New Moon\u003c/em>, featuring two members of the supporting cast. Relying on \u003ca href=\"https://abc7chicago.com/archive/7108032/\">extra security\u003c/a>, the mall avoided a repeat of the 2008 crush.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\">\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>-themed events around the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the fans in attendance, 16-year-old Kathalina Lopez of Richmond, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/twilight-stars-thrill-hundreds-in-s-f-3281369.php\">SFGate\u003c/a> that \u003cem>she \u003c/em>heard the girl who got hurt in 2008 got to meet Pattinson that day after all. “I want to get trampled now,” Lopez said wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/twilight1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest installment of the “Twilight” movie series comes out later this month. And one of the stars, Kellan Lutz, signed an autograph in the parking lot of the Stonestown Mall in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. \u003ccite>(\tSan Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Contributor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This October will mark 20 years since Meyer’s first \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book was published, spawning three more novels and launching the wildly popular film franchise starring Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. In honor of the anniversary, \u003ca href=\"#thefilmswillreturntotheaters\"> the films will return to theaters, accompanied by\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"#ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\"> a host of \u003cem>Twilight-\u003c/em>themed events locally that include\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/twilight-in-concert-san-jose-california-09-26-2025/event/1C0062B0B14A5BA2\"> a San Jose screening on Friday, accompanied by a live orchestra.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here in the Bay Area, affection for the vampire romance saga — and the meaning fans drew from it — never truly died.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Twenty years of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The initial fandom sparked by Meyer’s books — following shy teen Bella Swan as she falls in love with brooding fellow student Edward, who is in fact a century-old vampire — went supernova in 2008 with the release of the first film adaptation, \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga was seen as something of a camp masterpiece. \u003ca href=\"https://buggirl200.com/blogs/news/a-t-shirt-shop-for-the-semi-ironic-twilight-fan\">Semi-ironic\u003c/a> merchandise sold out online. Rowdy drag screenings took over venues like San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/twilight-2008/\">Roxie Theater\u003c/a>. Even \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMJaXuRe/\">Pattinson, a famous hater of his own franchise,\u003c/a> gave credit to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/robert-pattinson-interview-twilight-soundtracks-8505754/\">its excellent soundtrack\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> fan Sophie Kim, an assistant producer at KQED, noted that fans who were too young when the movies first came out are now selling old \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> items on resale app Depop “like it’s Balenciaga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Olivia-Rodrigo_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from Olivia Rodrigo displaying an Edward and Bella-themed purse. \u003ccite>(Olivia Rodrigo/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Vicky Chung, who grew up watching the movies in Sunnyvale theaters, has the books on her desk and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bexterhexter/video/7530218141532622102\">“Where the hell have you been loca?”\u003c/a> mug in hand, proudly: because people just \u003cem>get it\u003c/em> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no point in feeling a little guilty about my guilty pleasure,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Reclaiming \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the movies making billions of dollars upon release, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2008/11/10/bloodsuckers-trample-kids-at-twilight-signing/\">contemporary coverage\u003c/a> of moments like the 2008 Stonestown Galleria incident exemplifies how the mostly young, mostly female “Twihard” fandom was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.flowjournal.org/2009/12/rabid-obsessed-and-frenzied-understanding-twilight-fangirls-and-the-gendered-politics-of-fandom-melissa-click-university-of-missouri/\">mocked or derided\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrying signs that read \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jul/29/comic-con-2009-revenge-nerds\">“\u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> has RUINED Comic-Con,” \u003c/a>male comic book fans protested the Twihards at the annual San Diego fandom convention — unaware that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/cjsocrayzee/status/1943795663227302259?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">Pattinson would cross over into their fandom \u003c/a>to become \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_(film)\">their Batman \u003c/a>within a mere 13 years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the intervening years, culture enjoyed by young women and their mothers became (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O06tMbIKh0\">something) less of a popular punching bag\u003c/a>. 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221483930/girl-economy-taylor-swift-beyonce-barbie-2023\">was even declared\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/article/2023-girl-trends-barbie\">some outlets\u003c/a> as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4l5yHdpT-b/\">‘Year of The Girl,’\u003c/a> in recognition of the phenomenal cultural — and economic — impact of \u003cem>Barbie,\u003c/em> along with high-grossing stadium tours from Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. The \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga was, Kim said, “just too ahead of its time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Twilight-Photo-Collage-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eden Crowhurst growing up in Livermore, right, Twilight memorabilia from KQED’s Vicky Chung, left. \u003ccite>(Darren Tu/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Twilight’\u003c/em>s popular reclamation has also been driven in large part by recognition of its queer credentials. Actor Stewart, who came out as queer in 2017, told \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/features/kristen-stewart-coming-out-twilight-gay-sundance-sex-scenes-1235867627/\">\u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that “it’s such a gay movie,” and that its themes of dangerous desire are “a very Gothic, gay inclination that I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daly City artist and \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>fan Amie Sarazan agrees wholeheartedly, calling the series “a foundational work of bisexual panic.” For Sarazan, the saga is “at once, this pop cultural juggernaut and also this bizarre indie movie that shouldn’t be as weird as it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/I-survived_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Instagram post from buggirl200brand of a Twilight-themed shirt.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarazan, a costume designer for stars like Trixie Mattel and Peaches Christ, watches the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>movies on a loop while sewing for their drag clientele. And for their birthday last year, they convinced Bay Area collective \u003ca href=\"https://mediameltdown.tv/\">Media Meltdown\u003c/a> to turn the retro 4-Star Theater in San Francisco’s Richmond District into an adoring \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>drag tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the party, performer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cheetahbiscotti/?hl=en\">Cheetah Biscotti\u003c/a> strutted down the aisle, ripping off their shirt like the scorned werewolf Jacob Black. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/piranha_psychotronica/?hl=en\">Piranha Psychotronica\u003c/a> touched Sarazan’s hand and read their mind – mimicking the saga’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZrvflNZPCM\">unhinged villain Aro \u003c/a>portrayed by Martin Sheen – as \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>erotica blared in the background. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kafka.drag/?hl=en\">Kafka X\u003c/a> bit Sarazan’s neck, making them “forever 39.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarazan was even dressed as Vampire Bella herself in a dark navy blue dress with tinted sunglasses to mimic blood-red eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12057509 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Amie-photoshoot_resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from Amie Sarazan’s ‘Twilight’-themed birthday photoshoot. Photo provided by Nicole Fraser-Herron.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afterward, Sarazan cued up that night’s screening: the fourth installment of the saga, \u003cem>Breaking Dawn: Part 1. \u003c/em>They recall being “in full delight” watching their friends scream during the film’s wilder moments, including a pregnant Bella receiving an emergency C-section from her vampire husband using his teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because my experience in a female body has been one of body horror,” they said, “I like to inflict that on my friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Twilight’ as text\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Twenty years after the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series was released into the world, the novels and the movies they spawned have also become the focus of academic study — opening up the thornier aspects of the saga to critical appraisal from fans and students alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent graduate Eden Crowhurst, who taught a student class on the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>saga at UC Berkeley, said she was compelled to create this course after seeing franchises deemed more “acceptable for boys to read” be the center of other classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowhurst, whose appreciation for the saga was cultivated by her \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>-loving family, wanted to prove that a series with a mostly female fanbase could be discussed in an academic sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, for many, \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is a truly \u003ca href=\"https://womensenews.org/2025/06/watching-twilight-in-a-post-roe-america-hits-differently/\">loaded text\u003c/a>, with a lot to dissect even after all of these years, she said — everything from innocence and love to sex and chastity, interwoven with themes from Meyer’s own Mormon faith. There’s also an upholding of whiteness – especially among vampires, who are described as incredibly pale and beautiful – and the depictions of an indigenous tribe that Meyer “Christianizes” in “every sense of the word,” Crowhurst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@dantehotsauce/video/7420595982489947422\" data-video-id=\"7420595982489947422\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@dantehotsauce\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@dantehotsauce?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dantehotsauce\u003c/a> i cant escape mormonism \u003ca title=\"twilight\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilight?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilight\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"twilightsaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/twilightsaga?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#twilightsaga\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Originalton - moetdaddy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Originalton-7317970034784422689?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Originalton – moetdaddy\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting the “perfect bad media” aspect of \u003cem>Twilight’s \u003c/em>resurgence, Crowhurst stresses the escapism inherent in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O06tMbIKh0\">much-derided romance genre\u003c/a> of which the series is a part, despite its horror trappings. It’s no accident that the series found true popularity during the 2008 recession, she said — with hero Edward providing a fantasy of protecting Bella physically and financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Romance is the one place where women can really be like, ‘No, this is what I want,'” Crowhurst said. “And \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is kind of the blueprint for these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Crowhurst wants her fellow students to critically engage with \u003cem>Twilight’\u003c/em>s myriad contradictions, too. “It’s such a weird book series because again, it toes the line,” she said. “The reception can be feminist, but also the content is very conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, for Crowhurst, this complexity holds true for the saga’s legacy itself. “People take \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>nowadays more seriously — and less seriously,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How you can observe 20 years of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Internalize the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>vibe\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, listen to Sarazan: Washington-set \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>is not a “Halloween movie” but \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGLNDuhTc0\">“a rainy season movie”\u003c/a> — and the Bay has \u003cem>plenty \u003c/em>of gloomy,\u003cem> “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-XUZgrCCjzo\">\u003cem>hoa-hoa-hoa-hoa\u003c/em>\u003c/a>” brooding spots here if you want to observe the 20th anniversary properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049568/best-bay-area-hikes-for-cold-gloomy-weather\">round-up of spaces\u003c/a> perfect for overcast days, including Tomales Bay in Point Reyes and the eucalyptus groves in El Granada. Just be sure to bring your \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/ASVP-Shop-Original-Twilight-Filter/dp/B0CDNMYZM7\">\u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>filter lens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"thefilmswillreturntotheaters\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Attend a \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> movie screening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To mark the 20th anniversary of the \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>book series’ publication, studio Lionsgate is \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reel/1185872683714959\">bringing\u003c/a> the entire \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>series back to theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major chains across the Bay Area are showing each movie in \u003cem>The Twilight Saga\u003c/em>, mostly from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/amc-metreon-16-aanem/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">AMC Metreon 16\u003c/a> in San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>East Bay screenings:\u003c/em> AMC Bay Street 16 in Emeryville; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-hilltop-16-aaqal/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-11-02\">Cinemark Century Hilltop 16\u003c/a> in Richmond; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-bayfair-mall-16-aapic/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-11-02\">Cinemark Century Bayfair Mall 16\u003c/a> in San Leandro; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-at-hayward-aavac/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Hayward; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-walnut-creek-14-and-xd-aarar/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Walnut Creek 14\u003c/a> in Walnut Creek; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-downtown-pleasant-hill-16-and-xd-aaqam/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Downtown Pleasant Hill 16\u003c/a> in Pleasant Hill; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-union-landing-25-and-xd-aanay/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Union City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC NewPark 12\u003c/a> in Newark; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Brentwood 14\u003c/a> in Brentwood; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/regal-hacienda-crossings-screenx-imax-and-rpx-aaopk/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Regal Hacienda Crossings\u003c/a> in Dublin; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-vallejo-14-aapis/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Vallejo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>North Bay screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/regal-edwards-fairfield-and-imax-aandk/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Regal Edwards\u003c/a> in Fairfield; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-great-mall-20-xd-and-screenx-aapcg/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Great Mall\u003c/a> in Milpitas; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-napa-valley-and-xd-aawtt/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Napa\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>South Bay screenings: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-daly-city-20-xd-and-imax-aaqlt/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century Daly City 20\u003c/a> in Daly City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.cinemark.com/theatres/ca-san-mateo/cinemark-century-san-mateo-12\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in San Mateo; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinepolis-luxury-cinemas-san-mateo-aayrv/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas\u003c/a> in San Mateo; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-redwood-downtown-20-and-xd-aaubf/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Redwood City; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Mercado 20\u003c/a> in Santa Clara; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-mountain-view-16-aacfx/theater-page?format=all&date=2025-10-29\">Cinemark Century\u003c/a> in Mountain View; \u003ca href=\"https://www.fandango.com/cinemark-century-at-pacific-commons-and-xd-aawqb/theater-page?format=all\">Cinemark Century at Pacific Commons\u003c/a> in Fremont; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Saratoga 14\u003c/a> in San Jose; \u003ca href=\"https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-2009-re-81105/showtimes?date=2025-10-30\">AMC Eastridge 15\u003c/a> in San Jose\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d like to host your own screening, be prepared to pay around $4 for an online rental: the movies have \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/twilight-leaving-netflix-where-watch-163000433.html\">recently been pulled from Netflix\u003c/a>. But according to KQED Education’s own Janelle Kim, this could be a great opportunity for a drinking game. Her suggestions include: a shot every time a vampire sparkles, or when Kristen Stewart has a dramatic Acting Moment (screaming Jacob’s name, scoffing, etc.) Try not to pass out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"ahostofTwilightthemedeventslocally\">\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Go to a \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> concert or party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Twilight in Concert\u003c/em>, with live orchestra accompaniment, has a San Jose stop on Sept. 26. Tickets range from \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/twilight-in-concert-san-jose-california-09-26-2025/event/1C0062B0B14A5BA2\">$59 to $253\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNEzBPIJFnr/\">The Midway\u003c/a> in San Francisco is holding a \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>rave on Oct. 18. Tickets on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tixr.com/groups/midwaysf/events/twilight-rave-149504?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLKxi5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp9miL9NrJYR-NGf7BYt0jl2PNYrkS_KanDSOxRNOoI6LUTfdUWUNb86HgWNt_aem_Lr2EzHfI5CCps5yTCjebAQ\">the website\u003c/a> are sold out, but there is a chance that some of those people will drop out by mid-October.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twilight-night-at-books-inc-mountain-view-tickets-1471255367409\">Books Inc.\u003c/a> in Mountain View is hosting a free \u003cem>Twilight \u003c/em>party on Oct. 25.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For any \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> fans who cross over with Anne Rice’s \u003cem>Interview with the Vampire\u003c/em>, you can take the pilgrim to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lexlawgroup.com/our-office/\">the Nob Hill house\u003c/a> where the book takes place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Four months \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056113/charlie-kirks-assassination-and-the-rise-of-political-violence\">before he was assassinated\u003c/a> at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk staged one of his trademark “American Comeback” tour stops at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a white tent, with a stack of MAGA hats at his side and a raucous student crowd in front of him, the scene looked eerily like the one where he would later be killed. The video of that day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4BhA2UY08\">posted on YouTube\u003c/a>, is titled “Charlie Kirk & Riley Gaines Take on Freaky San Francisco.” In it, Kirk sipped tea from a Peet’s Coffee cup as he debated students. He folded his arms and looked down as he listened to each new question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a question about why America is so politically divided, Kirk said, “The left is the one dividing this country,” adding, “We heal this country by defeating the left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days since Kirk’s killing, President Donald Trump and his administration have seized on the moment to justify a broader crackdown on political dissent. Trump officials have launched investigations, pressured universities to hand over student information and promised to target what they call a left-wing domestic terror network — raising fears that the free speech movement Kirk claimed to defend is now being undermined in his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think they’re seeing an opportunity here to do something they’ve wanted to do for quite some time, which is silence criticisms of their movement, get rid of some of their political enemies and send a chilling effect that silences critics or potential protesters,” said Nolan Higdon, a political and media analyst at UC Santa Cruz. He pointed in a \u003ca href=\"https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/p/charlie-kirks-death\">blog post\u003c/a> to the recent firing of MSNBC pundit Matthew Dowd and a Florida reporter for their observations while covering Kirk’s killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057240\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00001_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00001_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00001_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00001_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers surround a framed photo of Charlie Kirk at a vigil hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ABC pulled comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s show last week after a Sept. 15 monologue, following FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s podcast comments that called Kimmel’s remarks as “the sickest conduct possible” and warned the network could face regulatory consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimmel, who returned Tuesday night, had said that Trump’s supporters were eager to characterize Kirk’s accused assassin “as anything other than one of them.”[aside postID=news_12055470 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CharlieKirkAP2.jpg']On Tuesday, Kimmel said “it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man” and used most of his monologue to accuse the Trump administration of attacking the First Amendment. Trump has also called for the termination of late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and do not say on television, and we have to stand up for it,” Kimmel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk rose to national prominence as the co-founder of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization that promotes conservative values on high school and college campuses, in 2012. TPUSA, which created a website identifying college instructors it claimed discriminated against conservative students, expanded beyond campus activism to become a major engine for Trump’s 2024 campaign, using its nationwide network of student chapters to energize young conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A popular podcaster, Kirk used social media and his college campus events to argue that free speech was under attack at American universities because of liberal bias among students and faculty. Although Kirk’s campus events were billed as forums for respectful debate, they often devolved into name-calling and shouting matches. In 2023, he called San Francisco State an “island of totalitarianism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4BhA2UY08\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a memorial service for Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Trump pledged to defend free speech “at all costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy; in many ways, it’s the basis of our entire society,” Trump said to an audience of tens of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump has made a cottage industry of suing U.S. media outlets over coverage he deems unfavorable. In December 2024, ABC News contributed $15 million to Trump’s planned presidential library as part of a settlement in a defamation case. The lawsuit stemmed from anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air claim that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Paramount, the parent company of CBS, agreed to donate $16 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over coverage on CBS’s \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>. Last Friday, a federal judge dismissed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takumi Sugawara, center, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, leads a prayer with his fellow members before starting a vigil for Charlie Kirk at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley, where Kirk spoke in 2022 and had reportedly planned to return later this year, is one target of a sprawling antisemitism investigation launched by the Trump administration earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two days after Kirk’s death, on Sept. 12, the university announced it had turned over\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation\"> information of more than 160 students and faculty\u003c/a> to administration officials after a request by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The investigation largely centers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986306/uc-berkeley-encampment-is-packing-up-for-merced-heres-what-admin-agreed-to\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> that erupted on university campuses following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing retaliation by Israel that has followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s decision to cooperate with the investigation has rattled some on campus, who say the school — long celebrated as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">birthplace of the free speech movement\u003c/a> — is failing to defend its own students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees listen to opening remarks at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The administration has not been honest with its own community, and it has broken trust with the community … knowing full well that the consequences [of forwarding these names] could be deportation, harassment, detention, loss of employment, limitations imposed on passports, congressional hearings, vilification, abduction,” said Judith Butler, a distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s graduate school. “All of these things have happened to students at other universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By debating students and posting the clips online, Kirk helped swell the ranks of the Republican Party and turn Turning Point USA into a kingmaker in the American conservative movement. California — and the Bay Area in particular — proved especially useful foils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is also a guy who was trying to make money off the internet. He knew his audience was MAGA folks, and one of the biggest villains of that movement is the state of California, whether it be Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom and his lockdowns, or the ‘blue-haired liberals’ they make fun of,” Higdon said. “So coming out here and recording videos that make you look intellectually superior to California’s college youth plays really well with that audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s surprising that Kirk would choose California as a location for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Kulisek (center), a Concord resident, holds a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takumi Sugawara, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, said it still “doesn’t feel real” that Kirk is dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so relevant to my life. I listened to his podcast, I tuned into his show like every morning,” Sugawara said, adding that he joined Turning Point USA because he wanted to promote free speech on campus. “ I wanted to foster this environment where people can agree to disagree, but still call each other fellow Americans and fellow free speech lovers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he opposed ABC’s decision to suspend \u003cem>Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/em> over comments Kimmel made in a monologue following Kirk’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee grabs a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ As long as you’re not inciting violence or directly threatening someone, all speeches are protected,” Sugawara said, adding that he has seen an increased interest from people wanting to join SFSU’s TPUSA chapter meetings. “I truly believe that as long as I have the right to speak my mind, you get to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, during an emotional opening monologue, Kimmel urged his audience to speak out against the Trump administration. Trump criticized the network’s decision to reinstate Kimmel, saying it amounted to an illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats, and threatened legal action against ABC and its parent company, Disney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This show is not important,” Kimmel said. “What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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TPUSA, which created a website identifying college instructors it claimed discriminated against conservative students, expanded beyond campus activism to become a major engine for Trump’s 2024 campaign, using its nationwide network of student chapters to energize young conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A popular podcaster, Kirk used social media and his college campus events to argue that free speech was under attack at American universities because of liberal bias among students and faculty. Although Kirk’s campus events were billed as forums for respectful debate, they often devolved into name-calling and shouting matches. In 2023, he called San Francisco State an “island of totalitarianism.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/oH4BhA2UY08'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oH4BhA2UY08'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Speaking at a memorial service for Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Trump pledged to defend free speech “at all costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy; in many ways, it’s the basis of our entire society,” Trump said to an audience of tens of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump has made a cottage industry of suing U.S. media outlets over coverage he deems unfavorable. In December 2024, ABC News contributed $15 million to Trump’s planned presidential library as part of a settlement in a defamation case. The lawsuit stemmed from anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air claim that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Paramount, the parent company of CBS, agreed to donate $16 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over coverage on CBS’s \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>. Last Friday, a federal judge dismissed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takumi Sugawara, center, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, leads a prayer with his fellow members before starting a vigil for Charlie Kirk at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley, where Kirk spoke in 2022 and had reportedly planned to return later this year, is one target of a sprawling antisemitism investigation launched by the Trump administration earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two days after Kirk’s death, on Sept. 12, the university announced it had turned over\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation\"> information of more than 160 students and faculty\u003c/a> to administration officials after a request by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The investigation largely centers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986306/uc-berkeley-encampment-is-packing-up-for-merced-heres-what-admin-agreed-to\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> that erupted on university campuses following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing retaliation by Israel that has followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s decision to cooperate with the investigation has rattled some on campus, who say the school — long celebrated as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">birthplace of the free speech movement\u003c/a> — is failing to defend its own students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees listen to opening remarks at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The administration has not been honest with its own community, and it has broken trust with the community … knowing full well that the consequences [of forwarding these names] could be deportation, harassment, detention, loss of employment, limitations imposed on passports, congressional hearings, vilification, abduction,” said Judith Butler, a distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s graduate school. “All of these things have happened to students at other universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By debating students and posting the clips online, Kirk helped swell the ranks of the Republican Party and turn Turning Point USA into a kingmaker in the American conservative movement. California — and the Bay Area in particular — proved especially useful foils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is also a guy who was trying to make money off the internet. He knew his audience was MAGA folks, and one of the biggest villains of that movement is the state of California, whether it be Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom and his lockdowns, or the ‘blue-haired liberals’ they make fun of,” Higdon said. “So coming out here and recording videos that make you look intellectually superior to California’s college youth plays really well with that audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s surprising that Kirk would choose California as a location for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Kulisek (center), a Concord resident, holds a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takumi Sugawara, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, said it still “doesn’t feel real” that Kirk is dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so relevant to my life. I listened to his podcast, I tuned into his show like every morning,” Sugawara said, adding that he joined Turning Point USA because he wanted to promote free speech on campus. “ I wanted to foster this environment where people can agree to disagree, but still call each other fellow Americans and fellow free speech lovers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he opposed ABC’s decision to suspend \u003cem>Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/em> over comments Kimmel made in a monologue following Kirk’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee grabs a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ As long as you’re not inciting violence or directly threatening someone, all speeches are protected,” Sugawara said, adding that he has seen an increased interest from people wanting to join SFSU’s TPUSA chapter meetings. “I truly believe that as long as I have the right to speak my mind, you get to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, during an emotional opening monologue, Kimmel urged his audience to speak out against the Trump administration. Trump criticized the network’s decision to reinstate Kimmel, saying it amounted to an illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats, and threatened legal action against ABC and its parent company, Disney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This show is not important,” Kimmel said. “What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Belva Davis, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who broke the color barrier in Bay Area radio and television in the 1960s, died Wednesday. She was 92.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis was the first Black woman to be hired as a television journalist on the West Coast when she took a position with KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, in 1966. She remained on the air for nearly five decades at KPIX, KRON and KQED. Davis rose to prominence during an era of pervasive sexism, racism and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Pam Moore, former KRON TV anchor\"]‘She is a legend and she was a mentor, a friend, a mom… You don’t work in California and journalism as a person of color and not know about Belva Davis.’[/pullquote]“Her legitimacy as an excellent reporter, her integrity, her professional accomplishments and her personal attributes made her the sort of person that everyone aspired to become,” said Mary Bitterman, who served as KQED’s CEO from 1993 to 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her reputation as a journalist, reporter and anchor was always highly respected, noted for its fairness and for putting stories into context,” Bitterman noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis was hired by KQED TV in 1977 and continued working there until her retirement in 2012. Among the programs she hosted were KQED Newsroom and This Week in Northern California. She was known as much for her personal kindness and warmth as she was for her deep knowledge of journalism, Bay Area communities and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is a legend and she was a mentor, a friend, a mom – you know, all of those things. And I just loved her,” said former KRON TV anchor Pam Moore, who met Davis early in her own career. “Certainly you don’t work in California and journalism as a person of color and not know about Belva Davis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1615px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person leans on a desk in a TV studio with the words \"This Week in Northern California\" written on the wall behind them.' width=\"1615\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED.jpg 1615w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED-800x991.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED-1020x1263.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED-160x198.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED-1240x1536.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1615px) 100vw, 1615px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis on the set of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without any formal training, Davis broke into an industry with steep obstacles for Black women. Being hired for media jobs outside community-focused radio stations and newspapers, which aimed their programming and news coverage at predominantly Black audiences, was almost unheard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working for radio station KDIA in 1964, Davis covered the Republican National Convention at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, where conservative Barry Goldwater was nominated for president. As one of the few journalists of color at the convention, Davis endured extraordinary abuse and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an interview at Google in 2011, Davis recalled the treatment she and others, including her radio news director, Louis Freeman, received that week, such as being denied press passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in the rafters, sitting quietly, trying to make sure nobody found us,” she recalled. When Davis and Freeman were discovered, convention attendees yelled, “‘What are you [N-word] doing in here anyway?’,” Davis recalled. “We were driven out of that hall as people threw debris at my news director and I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident, \u003ca href=\"https://msmagazine.com/2020/08/24/republican-national-convention-conventional-ignorance-belva-daviss-confrontation-with-violent-racism-at-the-1964-rnc/\">which Davis also wrote about in her 2011 memoir, \u003cem>Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman’s Life in Journalism\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, shook but did not deter her. In fact, it deepened her resolve to stick with journalism to tell the stories of Black communities and others overlooked by mainstream media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Journalists were beginning to bring the stories of Black Americans out of the shadows … and into the light of day,” Davis wrote of her thoughts following the RNC incident. “They were reporting on the cross burnings and water hosings, the beatings and lynchings, in vivid details that the public could no longer ignore. I wanted to be one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She confronted prejudice, confronted every possible barrier, and yet became the journalist who was most trusted and most believed,” former \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> and Politico journalist Carla Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had to put up with being thrown out of press conferences, being called names, being called ethnic slurs. She never let any of that deter her,” Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1421px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two people sit at a table talking to each other in front of a TV screen with the words \"This Week in Northern California\" written on it.' width=\"1421\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED.jpg 1421w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1421px) 100vw, 1421px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis (right) interviews Kamala Harris on This Week in Northern California in 2012. \u003ccite>(David Marks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as she was the focus of abuse at the RNC, Davis realized that television journalism was where she wanted to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a bad, terrible incident, but it inspired me to do something that I might not have ever done had that been a pleasant, ordinary, normal convention,” Davis said years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that GOP convention, Davis was hired by KPIX TV, becoming the first Black woman to be hired as a full-time journalist on Bay Area television. It was just another step on a journey that began many miles from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black woman smiles at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-800x1005.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1020x1281.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1630x2048.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Belva Davis’s first foray into journalism began as a freelancer for Jet Magazine in 1957. \u003ccite>(ROMAINE/KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born Belvagene Melton in 1932 in Monroe, Louisiana, she was the oldest of four children. In the early 1940s, she and her family moved west to Oakland, where she attended public schools. She graduated from Berkeley High School in 1951, becoming the first in her family to get a high school diploma. Although she was accepted to San Francisco State University, she did not attend because her family could not afford the tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first foray into the world of journalism came in 1957 when she wrote articles as a freelancer for Jet magazine. For the next few years, she wrote for other publications, such as the Sun-Reporter, which covered issues of particular interest to Black communities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, neither one of us had gone to journalism school,” recalled retired news anchor Barbara Rodgers, who worked with Davis at KPIX. “And in fact, in her case, she always sort of felt she didn’t have everything she needed because she didn’t get to go to college … And I would tell her, you got your J-school education by doing it – the same way I got mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodgers met Davis in 1979 when she moved to San Francisco from Rochester, New York, where she’d worked in local television. Friends told her to look Davis up when she came to town. Davis was known for hosting parties for the holidays, often inviting people new to the Bay Area who didn’t have a circle of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to her house for my first Thanksgiving dinner and almost every Thanksgiving after that, because Belva would put together every year this really eclectic group of people who were just so interesting,” Rodgers recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was so gracious… She just took me under her wing anytime I had a question or needed some advice. So she became my San Francisco mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Rodgers said, Davis helped pave the way for her and many women who followed her in Bay Area journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say that Belva kicked open the door, but left her shoe in it,” Rodgers said. “She wanted to prop it open for all the rest of us and really encouraged us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first she had to get in the door herself. Davis recalled being turned away by one Bay Area television news director who told her, “We’re not hiring any Negresses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That may not sound like a harmful word, but even as a young woman starting out in the business world, that was something that was very hurtful,” she said years later on KQED’s Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helped me in my resolve to demonstrate that I could do whatever they were doing in that station as well as anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in her career at KRON TV, Davis was assigned the title “urban affairs specialist,” but she soon burnished her credentials covering political stories more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people sit around a large table in a TV studio.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1536x995.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1920x1244.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis leads a roundtable discussion during a 1993 broadcast of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ Panelists include Anthony Moor of KRON-TV (far left) and Phil Matier of The San Francisco Chronicle (second from left). \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At KQED, Davis hosted several TV news-oriented programs that often focused on public affairs and politics. Over the years, she covered some of the most important stories and issues, including the deaths of hundreds of people at the Jonestown cult compound in Guyana, the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the AIDS crisis, as well as many local, state and national elections. She interviewed some of the most iconic newsmakers, including Muhammad Ali, Coretta Scott King and Fidel Castro, among many others. She also reported early on about deadly use of force by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinucci, a frequent guest on This Week in Northern California, called Davis “the gold standard for a generation of journalists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Belva Davis was a trailblazer like no other. She was a pioneer as an African American woman, but also a mentor to so many of us all throughout the Bay Area and throughout the nation,” Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo showing a Black woman and white man having a discussion looking at prepared sheets of paper with an old-style CRT television in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-1536x998.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis and producer John Roszak behind the scenes of a 1993 broadcast of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Davis was also very active with her union, including a stint as vice president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In addition to the eight Emmy Awards she won from the San Francisco/Northern California chapter, Davis received lifetime achievement awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and American Women in Radio and Television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was often called upon to serve on boards and commissions in the Bay Area. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown tapped Davis to help head fundraising efforts for the city’s Museum of the African Diaspora, which opened in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis’ oft-repeated motto was, “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you dream it, you can make it so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on Davis’ professional and personal life, KQED’s Bitterman said, “Belva was always a gentle woman and a strong woman with high standards. And I think her influence will be felt for many years to come … we shall not soon see her like again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis is survived by her second husband, Bill Moore; two children from her first marriage, Darolyn Davis and Steven Davis; and a granddaughter, Sterling Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an interview at Google in 2011, Davis recalled the treatment she and others, including her radio news director, Louis Freeman, received that week, such as being denied press passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in the rafters, sitting quietly, trying to make sure nobody found us,” she recalled. When Davis and Freeman were discovered, convention attendees yelled, “‘What are you [N-word] doing in here anyway?’,” Davis recalled. “We were driven out of that hall as people threw debris at my news director and I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident, \u003ca href=\"https://msmagazine.com/2020/08/24/republican-national-convention-conventional-ignorance-belva-daviss-confrontation-with-violent-racism-at-the-1964-rnc/\">which Davis also wrote about in her 2011 memoir, \u003cem>Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman’s Life in Journalism\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, shook but did not deter her. In fact, it deepened her resolve to stick with journalism to tell the stories of Black communities and others overlooked by mainstream media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Journalists were beginning to bring the stories of Black Americans out of the shadows … and into the light of day,” Davis wrote of her thoughts following the RNC incident. “They were reporting on the cross burnings and water hosings, the beatings and lynchings, in vivid details that the public could no longer ignore. I wanted to be one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She confronted prejudice, confronted every possible barrier, and yet became the journalist who was most trusted and most believed,” former \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> and Politico journalist Carla Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had to put up with being thrown out of press conferences, being called names, being called ethnic slurs. She never let any of that deter her,” Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1421px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two people sit at a table talking to each other in front of a TV screen with the words \"This Week in Northern California\" written on it.' width=\"1421\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED.jpg 1421w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1421px) 100vw, 1421px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis (right) interviews Kamala Harris on This Week in Northern California in 2012. \u003ccite>(David Marks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as she was the focus of abuse at the RNC, Davis realized that television journalism was where she wanted to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a bad, terrible incident, but it inspired me to do something that I might not have ever done had that been a pleasant, ordinary, normal convention,” Davis said years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that GOP convention, Davis was hired by KPIX TV, becoming the first Black woman to be hired as a full-time journalist on Bay Area television. It was just another step on a journey that began many miles from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black woman smiles at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-800x1005.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1020x1281.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1630x2048.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Belva Davis’s first foray into journalism began as a freelancer for Jet Magazine in 1957. \u003ccite>(ROMAINE/KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born Belvagene Melton in 1932 in Monroe, Louisiana, she was the oldest of four children. In the early 1940s, she and her family moved west to Oakland, where she attended public schools. She graduated from Berkeley High School in 1951, becoming the first in her family to get a high school diploma. Although she was accepted to San Francisco State University, she did not attend because her family could not afford the tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first foray into the world of journalism came in 1957 when she wrote articles as a freelancer for Jet magazine. For the next few years, she wrote for other publications, such as the Sun-Reporter, which covered issues of particular interest to Black communities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, neither one of us had gone to journalism school,” recalled retired news anchor Barbara Rodgers, who worked with Davis at KPIX. “And in fact, in her case, she always sort of felt she didn’t have everything she needed because she didn’t get to go to college … And I would tell her, you got your J-school education by doing it – the same way I got mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodgers met Davis in 1979 when she moved to San Francisco from Rochester, New York, where she’d worked in local television. Friends told her to look Davis up when she came to town. Davis was known for hosting parties for the holidays, often inviting people new to the Bay Area who didn’t have a circle of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to her house for my first Thanksgiving dinner and almost every Thanksgiving after that, because Belva would put together every year this really eclectic group of people who were just so interesting,” Rodgers recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was so gracious… She just took me under her wing anytime I had a question or needed some advice. So she became my San Francisco mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Rodgers said, Davis helped pave the way for her and many women who followed her in Bay Area journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say that Belva kicked open the door, but left her shoe in it,” Rodgers said. “She wanted to prop it open for all the rest of us and really encouraged us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first she had to get in the door herself. Davis recalled being turned away by one Bay Area television news director who told her, “We’re not hiring any Negresses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That may not sound like a harmful word, but even as a young woman starting out in the business world, that was something that was very hurtful,” she said years later on KQED’s Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helped me in my resolve to demonstrate that I could do whatever they were doing in that station as well as anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in her career at KRON TV, Davis was assigned the title “urban affairs specialist,” but she soon burnished her credentials covering political stories more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people sit around a large table in a TV studio.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1536x995.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1920x1244.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis leads a roundtable discussion during a 1993 broadcast of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ Panelists include Anthony Moor of KRON-TV (far left) and Phil Matier of The San Francisco Chronicle (second from left). \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At KQED, Davis hosted several TV news-oriented programs that often focused on public affairs and politics. Over the years, she covered some of the most important stories and issues, including the deaths of hundreds of people at the Jonestown cult compound in Guyana, the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the AIDS crisis, as well as many local, state and national elections. She interviewed some of the most iconic newsmakers, including Muhammad Ali, Coretta Scott King and Fidel Castro, among many others. She also reported early on about deadly use of force by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinucci, a frequent guest on This Week in Northern California, called Davis “the gold standard for a generation of journalists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Belva Davis was a trailblazer like no other. She was a pioneer as an African American woman, but also a mentor to so many of us all throughout the Bay Area and throughout the nation,” Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo showing a Black woman and white man having a discussion looking at prepared sheets of paper with an old-style CRT television in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-1536x998.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis and producer John Roszak behind the scenes of a 1993 broadcast of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Davis was also very active with her union, including a stint as vice president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In addition to the eight Emmy Awards she won from the San Francisco/Northern California chapter, Davis received lifetime achievement awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and American Women in Radio and Television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was often called upon to serve on boards and commissions in the Bay Area. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown tapped Davis to help head fundraising efforts for the city’s Museum of the African Diaspora, which opened in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis’ oft-repeated motto was, “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you dream it, you can make it so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on Davis’ professional and personal life, KQED’s Bitterman said, “Belva was always a gentle woman and a strong woman with high standards. 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"content": "\u003cp>The retrial of the final ex-\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a> employee charged with sexual abuse ended Wednesday in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035958/mistrial-declared-fci-dublin-sex-abuse-case-jury-deadlocks-all-charges\">second deadlocked jury\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors reported they could not reach a unanimous decision on whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032044/in-court-women-detail-abuse-east-bay-federal-prison-officer\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> was guilty of sexual misconduct toward women formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin, where he worked as a correctional counselor and guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is one of 10 former officials charged in connection with abuse at the shuttered East Bay women’s prison, dubbed the “Rape Club,” after a federal investigation became public in 2021. The other nine \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047086/just-a-few-of-the-many-east-bay-prison-abuse-victims-speak-out-after-more-charges\">have been convicted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith faced abuse allegations from four women incarcerated at Dublin between 2019 and 2021. They testified that he pushed them up against the walls of their cells and other secluded rooms in the housing units, forced his fingers inside of them, and, in one case, compelled a woman to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekslong trial, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053087/jury-selection-begins-for-retrial-of-former-fci-dublin-officer-known-as-dirty-dick\">began in August\u003c/a>, was Smith’s second. In the spring, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers declared a mistrial after that jury deadlocked on all of the counts against him, plus a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041857/after-mistrial-in-fci-dublin-abuse-case-new-charges-leave-out-one-of-the-accusers\">15th charge prosecutors later dropped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith watching as a witness gives testimony against him in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smith’s first jury was reportedly split evenly on his guilt and said the case lacked concrete evidence. On Wednesday, according to a court observer, several male jurors wept as they told Gonzalez Rogers they were unable to reach a consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys Naomi Chung and Joanna Sheridan again sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056119/fci-dublin-was-plagued-by-abuse-that-led-to-false-accusations-ex-guards-attorneys-say\">undermine the women’s testimony\u003c/a>, pointing to rewards available to those who joined civil lawsuits against the Bureau of Prisons. They called witnesses who said the incarcerated women had been encouraged by attorneys to bring forward abuse claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During closing arguments, Chung argued the women stood to gain money and, in some cases, early release or asylum in the U.S. She said they viewed Smith as an easy target because he’d been demoted years earlier after facing — but ultimately cleared of — allegations of a sexual relationship with an incarcerated woman.[aside postID=news_12056119 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg']A defense witness, who was formerly incarcerated at Dublin, told the jury she overheard a meeting of dozens of women in the prison yard discussing how to join lawsuits against the facility. She said one woman told the others, including one of Smith’s accusers, to “jump on the bandwagon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not immediately clear how the case would proceed. Since testimony ended last week, prosecutors revealed they’ve launched a separate investigation into Smith’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The probe began after Smith’s wife testified to owning properties and cars that appeared to conflict with his sworn financial affidavit, which claimed he lacked assets to pay for his own defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Rogers demanded an evidentiary hearing on the matter. At a Tuesday hearing, prosecutors said Smith transferred more than $800,000 in assets to his wife around the time of his 2023 indictment, despite reporting $0 in “other property” that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s attorneys were allowed to defend his financial statements under seal. No decision has been made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney’s office declined to comment on whether it would try the case a third time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco leaders finalize their plan to make way for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown\">thousands of new homes\u003c/a>, they have heard the same criticism: New construction could dramatically change the quaint and quirky character of San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to appease that concern, San Francisco’s Planning Department wants to find a compromise by identifying historic landmarks for preservation across the city, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tug-of-war is especially tense on the city’s west side, where many new homes could be built by the plan’s upzoning of mostly single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the Planning Department and Supervisor Connie Chan will \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/preserv/landmarks_designation/hp-fzp-landmarks-program-district-01-forum-notification-112425.pdf\">host a community forum\u003c/a> to discuss designating 10 neighborhood buildings as historic landmarks there. The event will inform Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, which includes a \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/landmark-designation-program\">landmark designation program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The meeting will be a chance for us, alongside Supervisor Chan, to share information about the landmarking process, what it means, and about work we’ve done in District 1 so far — and to get feedback from the neighborhood,” Dan Sider, the department’s chief of staff, said in an email. “This is a step along the path to elevating the Richmond’s most special buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057522\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/building_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/building_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/building_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/building_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in the Richmond District on April 4, 2015. \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The department has already held a forum in the Castro for District 8 and aims to hold such meetings in every supervisorial district eventually. The parcels under consideration in the Richmond include the Jefferson Airplane House on Fulton Street, the Star of the Sea Church on Geary Boulevard, and the Internet Archive on Funston Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates worry the historic landmark program could make it harder to add housing in neighborhoods that have been historically lower-density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco plans to upzone large swaths of those neighborhoods to make way for about 36,000 homes. The city’s efforts are part of a larger statewide mandate requiring every city and county to plan for a record number of homes by 2030. But historic designation, housing advocates warn, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022208/why-a-push-to-make-san-franciscos-north-beach-a-historic-district-has-housing-advocates-worried\">increasingly being used\u003c/a> as a tool to skirt those rules.[aside postID=news_12024770 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_00193-1020x680.jpg']Buildings that receive historic landmark status also enjoy special protections against demolitions and renovations. And if a developer wants to redevelop the historic property, their design often has to adhere to certain rules to maintain the building’s historic character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliana Lamm-Perez, a volunteer lead with Grow the Richmond, agreed that some of the buildings under consideration should be protected, but said others are a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are also a few that it feels like they’re just being protected because they’re old and not necessarily because they have any sort of historical significance,” said Lamm-Perez, whose organization advocates for reducing obstacles to housing development. “We want to make sure that we are not creating more roadblocks to new housing — especially in the Richmond, [which] has seen so little growth in the last 30 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to 3700 Geary Blvd., which currently houses an Office Depot and a large parking garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, [that’s] the store that I go to for my supplies, but ultimately, if there is an opportunity to create new housing there, we shouldn’t block it just because the building is old,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alexandria Theater building in San Francisco on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Woody LaBounty, president of preservationist group SF Heritage, agreed that the building would be a great candidate for housing, particularly because it is adjacent to Arguello Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare. But he rejected the premise that historical designation would prevent housing from being built there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Western Neighborhoods Project, a nonprofit historical organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/geary-st-cc-pwrhse.php\">the Larkins Building\u003c/a> was home to the Larkins Carriage Company in 1919. The building later became a garage for Muni buses, and following World War II, it became a car dealership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Larkins building is important, both architecturally and to [the] history of transportation in the city,” he said. “But the big point here is: making it a landmark does not mean you can’t add housing to that building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that the designation adds a step to the development process; however, because any changes made to historic buildings often require additional environmental and design reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it created the list of potential historic sites, the Planning Department referred to previous surveys, worked with residents, property owners and supervisors, and made sure each site complied with the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_planning/0-0-0-27871\">existing historic designation standards\u003c/a>. Then, it whittled down the list to 10 properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to share those buildings with the public tonight and get their feedback,” Dan Sider said. “I imagine that some of these folks will say, ‘Yeah, that’s great, we should definitely preserve it.’ Others might have a very different reaction. And people might show up and say, ‘Hey, look, why didn’t you consider some other address?’ That’s the purpose of tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Buildings that receive historic landmark status also enjoy special protections against demolitions and renovations. And if a developer wants to redevelop the historic property, their design often has to adhere to certain rules to maintain the building’s historic character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliana Lamm-Perez, a volunteer lead with Grow the Richmond, agreed that some of the buildings under consideration should be protected, but said others are a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are also a few that it feels like they’re just being protected because they’re old and not necessarily because they have any sort of historical significance,” said Lamm-Perez, whose organization advocates for reducing obstacles to housing development. “We want to make sure that we are not creating more roadblocks to new housing — especially in the Richmond, [which] has seen so little growth in the last 30 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to 3700 Geary Blvd., which currently houses an Office Depot and a large parking garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, [that’s] the store that I go to for my supplies, but ultimately, if there is an opportunity to create new housing there, we shouldn’t block it just because the building is old,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250507-ALEXANDRIA-THEATER-MD-03-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alexandria Theater building in San Francisco on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Woody LaBounty, president of preservationist group SF Heritage, agreed that the building would be a great candidate for housing, particularly because it is adjacent to Arguello Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare. But he rejected the premise that historical designation would prevent housing from being built there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Western Neighborhoods Project, a nonprofit historical organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsidelands.org/geary-st-cc-pwrhse.php\">the Larkins Building\u003c/a> was home to the Larkins Carriage Company in 1919. The building later became a garage for Muni buses, and following World War II, it became a car dealership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Larkins building is important, both architecturally and to [the] history of transportation in the city,” he said. “But the big point here is: making it a landmark does not mean you can’t add housing to that building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that the designation adds a step to the development process; however, because any changes made to historic buildings often require additional environmental and design reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it created the list of potential historic sites, the Planning Department referred to previous surveys, worked with residents, property owners and supervisors, and made sure each site complied with the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_planning/0-0-0-27871\">existing historic designation standards\u003c/a>. Then, it whittled down the list to 10 properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to share those buildings with the public tonight and get their feedback,” Dan Sider said. “I imagine that some of these folks will say, ‘Yeah, that’s great, we should definitely preserve it.’ Others might have a very different reaction. And people might show up and say, ‘Hey, look, why didn’t you consider some other address?’ That’s the purpose of tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer isn’t saying her brother is a saint. Far from it. He was convicted of domestic violence last year and entered a one-year intervention program. He graduated on July 23 in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fresno\">Fresno\u003c/a> County courtroom, where a judge told him he had done a good job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, while leaving the courthouse, five men and one woman in plain clothes approached him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone came up to him, got in his face and said his name,” said Jennifer, who did not want CalMatters to use her last name because she was concerned about immigration enforcement agents targeting other relatives. “And they grabbed him, and I tried to get between them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, who is undocumented, didn’t provide them with an identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shoved him in this car, which was a plain, beat-up van,” Jennifer said. “Then one of them asked if they should wait for ‘the other guy,’ and a different person said ‘we’re good with this one,’ like he was just part of their quota that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother is already back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11658200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests at immigration court hearings, which are on federal property, inside federal courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different about the detention of Jennifer’s brother is that it took place on the grounds of a state courthouse. Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen other people on the grounds of California court buildings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article311886762.html\">Stanislaus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311556058.html\">Glenn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-judge-denounces-ice-arrest-outside-downtown-courthouse/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Fresno counties, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496530/legal-experts-ice-criminal-courts-a-slower-path-to-justice\">NPR reports\u003c/a> federal immigration detentions in state courthouses across the country, from the Chicago suburbs to a county south of Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last Trump administration, California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests at superior court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12055651 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-1020x603.jpg']Picking people up at a courthouse can have a “potential chilling effect” on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\">said earlier this summer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By waiting outside the courthouse, immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it’s unclear whether the word “courthouse” in the law includes the grounds outside the courthouse. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office wouldn’t provide what it a spokesperson called “legal analysis” of those actions when CalMatters asked about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one immigration enforcement action was a clear violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, immigration enforcement agents conducted an operation inside the county’s Oroville courthouse on July 28. State law forbids civil arrests “in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056765 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release a person ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As far as the court is aware, ICE had not conducted enforcement actions inside one of its courthouses prior to Monday, July 28th,” Butte County Superior Court executive officer Sharif Elmallah said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is concerned by the potential chilling effect and other potential adverse impacts on participation in the legal system that may occur due to these enforcement actions being conducted in and around courthouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/newsom-new-immigration-laws/\">package of bills\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday meant to keep immigration enforcement agents out of schools and hospitals, it’s unclear what California law enforcement can actually do to enforce the law forbidding immigration agents from making arrests inside courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Justice Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/immigrant#resources\">guidance to state courthouses\u003c/a> provides some latitude to immigration enforcement agents. They may make arrests inside a courthouse if the case involves a national security threat, someone’s life is in danger, evidence is in danger or agents are in “hot pursuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing all of that, under California law, immigration agents can enter a courthouse to detain someone whom they believe poses a danger to public safety if they can’t find an alternate location and they have the approval of a federal immigration enforcement supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE defends courthouse arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer believes immigration agents ran her brother’s name through their own database when it was posted on the Fresno County Superior Court’s public online court docket, then waited for him to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded with a July quote from a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which asserted the agency’s right to make arrests of “a lawbreaker where you find them.” The spokesperson also said the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they’re arresting have been through security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046907 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE presence in immigration courts. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policies on courthouse arrests have seesawed through Democratic and Republican administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration in 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf\">designated schools, hospitals and religious buildings\u003c/a> as “sensitive locations” where immigration agents need permission to operate. ICE at the time said the list of sensitive locations was longer than those three types of places and urged agents to get permission from higher-ups before making arrests at any organization assisting “victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump undid that policy in 2018 with a directive instructing ICE agents to make arrests at state and local courthouses. They proceeded to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/56303dd4fea7b23d9375c1400d997364\">even in California\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">reversed that guidance\u003c/a>, putting courthouses mostly off-limits. In May, Wired reported that the new Trump administration went even further than its 2018 directive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/\">explicitly removing instructions\u003c/a> to agents that they should respect local laws that would prevent them from arresting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are immigrants avoiding court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer said word has already gotten out among the immigrant community in Fresno to stop attending court. Family members even tried to discourage her brother from appearing on the day he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, people are just avoiding going to the courthouse, even after meeting with groups who inform them that there’s consequences to not showing up,” said Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for the Valley Watch Network, an immigrant rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043437 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Fresno County Superior Court spokesperson said the court hasn’t seen a change in the number of people appearing, but noted that in a county of 1 million people, such shifts among a relatively small population would be hard to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice said it’s aware of the courthouse arrests. As a former member of the Assembly, Bonta, now the state attorney general, was a co-author of the law that was meant to deter immigration enforcement at California courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned with the Trump administration’s actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward out of fear of getting caught up in the President’s mass deportation dragnet,” the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, who is undocumented, didn’t provide them with an identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shoved him in this car, which was a plain, beat-up van,” Jennifer said. “Then one of them asked if they should wait for ‘the other guy,’ and a different person said ‘we’re good with this one,’ like he was just part of their quota that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother is already back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11658200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests at immigration court hearings, which are on federal property, inside federal courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different about the detention of Jennifer’s brother is that it took place on the grounds of a state courthouse. Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen other people on the grounds of California court buildings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article311886762.html\">Stanislaus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311556058.html\">Glenn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-judge-denounces-ice-arrest-outside-downtown-courthouse/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Fresno counties, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496530/legal-experts-ice-criminal-courts-a-slower-path-to-justice\">NPR reports\u003c/a> federal immigration detentions in state courthouses across the country, from the Chicago suburbs to a county south of Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last Trump administration, California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests at superior court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Picking people up at a courthouse can have a “potential chilling effect” on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\">said earlier this summer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By waiting outside the courthouse, immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it’s unclear whether the word “courthouse” in the law includes the grounds outside the courthouse. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office wouldn’t provide what it a spokesperson called “legal analysis” of those actions when CalMatters asked about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one immigration enforcement action was a clear violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, immigration enforcement agents conducted an operation inside the county’s Oroville courthouse on July 28. State law forbids civil arrests “in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056765 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release a person ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As far as the court is aware, ICE had not conducted enforcement actions inside one of its courthouses prior to Monday, July 28th,” Butte County Superior Court executive officer Sharif Elmallah said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is concerned by the potential chilling effect and other potential adverse impacts on participation in the legal system that may occur due to these enforcement actions being conducted in and around courthouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/newsom-new-immigration-laws/\">package of bills\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday meant to keep immigration enforcement agents out of schools and hospitals, it’s unclear what California law enforcement can actually do to enforce the law forbidding immigration agents from making arrests inside courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Justice Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/immigrant#resources\">guidance to state courthouses\u003c/a> provides some latitude to immigration enforcement agents. They may make arrests inside a courthouse if the case involves a national security threat, someone’s life is in danger, evidence is in danger or agents are in “hot pursuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing all of that, under California law, immigration agents can enter a courthouse to detain someone whom they believe poses a danger to public safety if they can’t find an alternate location and they have the approval of a federal immigration enforcement supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE defends courthouse arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer believes immigration agents ran her brother’s name through their own database when it was posted on the Fresno County Superior Court’s public online court docket, then waited for him to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded with a July quote from a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which asserted the agency’s right to make arrests of “a lawbreaker where you find them.” The spokesperson also said the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they’re arresting have been through security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046907 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE presence in immigration courts. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policies on courthouse arrests have seesawed through Democratic and Republican administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration in 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf\">designated schools, hospitals and religious buildings\u003c/a> as “sensitive locations” where immigration agents need permission to operate. ICE at the time said the list of sensitive locations was longer than those three types of places and urged agents to get permission from higher-ups before making arrests at any organization assisting “victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump undid that policy in 2018 with a directive instructing ICE agents to make arrests at state and local courthouses. They proceeded to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/56303dd4fea7b23d9375c1400d997364\">even in California\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">reversed that guidance\u003c/a>, putting courthouses mostly off-limits. In May, Wired reported that the new Trump administration went even further than its 2018 directive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/\">explicitly removing instructions\u003c/a> to agents that they should respect local laws that would prevent them from arresting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are immigrants avoiding court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer said word has already gotten out among the immigrant community in Fresno to stop attending court. Family members even tried to discourage her brother from appearing on the day he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, people are just avoiding going to the courthouse, even after meeting with groups who inform them that there’s consequences to not showing up,” said Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for the Valley Watch Network, an immigrant rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043437 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Fresno County Superior Court spokesperson said the court hasn’t seen a change in the number of people appearing, but noted that in a county of 1 million people, such shifts among a relatively small population would be hard to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice said it’s aware of the courthouse arrests. As a former member of the Assembly, Bonta, now the state attorney general, was a co-author of the law that was meant to deter immigration enforcement at California courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned with the Trump administration’s actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward out of fear of getting caught up in the President’s mass deportation dragnet,” the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The pinnacle experience for many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> undergraduate students is the spring commencement ceremony. Wearing their cap and gowns, thousands crowd California Memorial Stadium, the Golden Bears’ historic home, to mark the beginning of a new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Cal senior, Javier, knows he may miss this rite of passage and has prepared for a quieter triumph as the new fall semester gets underway this month. The 22-year-old sociology major, who plans to attend law school, is enrolled at UC Berkeley from Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has never set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although my body is physically confined, I keep my mind free by learning and educating myself and continuing to grow,” said Javier, who asked to be identified by his middle name on his lawyer’s advice, citing potential educational and legal repercussions, under KQED’s anonymous sources policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier, who awaits trial for an alleged violent crime, is expected to become California’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/incarcerated\">incarcerated\u003c/a> young person to graduate from a UC school after transferring from community college. His achievement is possible through a partnership between the Alameda County Office of Education and Incarceration to College, an outreach program for in-custody and out-of-custody youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12057183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2000x1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarceration to College, launched in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, has served more than 1,000 students across three Bay Area counties, giving them access to college readiness courses, tutoring and coaching. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program, founded by a formerly incarcerated scholar and UC Berkeley graduate, provides college readiness courses, tutoring and coaching to incarcerated students in juvenile halls in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties. Participants can be up to 25, the maximum age for a youth life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarceration to College, launched in 2020 at the height of the pandemic and grounded in cultural affirmation, has served more than 1,000 students across three counties. Last year, the program had 65 students enrolled in college while living at Bay Area juvenile halls, including eight at UC schools. This year, another incarcerated youth became the first to gain direct admission to a four-year California State University program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see them as people who are felons or have a record and now automatically need to go into the trades,” founder Shani Shay said. “Or now automatically should be looking at a job that doesn’t even align with some of the risks that they are willing to take to get out of poverty.”[aside postID=news_12001595 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0745-1020x765.jpg']That struggle marked Javier’s own childhood. He grew up in a Mexican immigrant household in Hayward with nearly a dozen family members, including his mother, siblings and other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was heavily influenced by the gang culture of his uncles and his neighborhood. By 13, he landed in juvenile hall for assault and armed robbery, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People knew what school I went to and who I involved myself with. So I didn’t really want to go to school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 15, he said, he and his friends survived a shooting. Shortly after, in ninth grade, he dropped out. He said he felt dismissed by teachers who routinely sent him to the principal’s office for what he described as small infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 17, Javier returned to juvenile hall. There, older friends from the neighborhood who were also incarcerated encouraged him to finish high school. At first, he was discouraged because he had only about a year’s worth of credits, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, damn…I am pretty much nowhere. So that kind of made me feel ashamed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surrounded by peers with similar experiences, classes began to feel different, Javier said. He began to feel a sense of belonging and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went from being quiet to being the main person answering all the questions on the whiteboard, being the first one to raise his hand,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Javier graduated from high school and enrolled in online classes at Laney College in Oakland, with support from Incarceration to College. He excelled, lobbied to take a full-time course load and even cross-enrolled in a UC Berkeley class. As a junior, he transferred to Cal full-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He shone. He was an A+ student,” said Victoria Robinson, a senior lecturer in ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. “He’s thirsty for education. You can’t give him enough material…to the point where the syllabus wasn’t enough. He just wants to keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a transformative move, Robinson flipped the classroom dynamic. Instead of Javier joining remotely, she brought the classroom to him — teaching from inside the juvenile hall while students tuned in via Zoom. Some students also went to Javier’s facility to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057234\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shani Shay (right), director of Incarceration to College, works with Laney College student Bryan Minero at the program’s offices on the UC Berkeley campus on Sept. 9, 2025. The initiative supports system-impacted youth in accessing higher education. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had a profound impact on UC Berkeley students,” Robinson said. At first, they had questions, but ultimately, they fully supported the arrangement. It also buoyed Jaiver, who said he sometimes faced pushback from juvenile hall staff questioning whether he was really receiving a UC Berkeley education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier’s trajectory is uncommon, especially given the disparity in college achievement for formerly incarcerated adults. A 2018 study by the Prison Policy Initiative found 4% of formerly incarcerated people held a college degree, compared to 29% of the U.S. population. The report cited barriers, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962706/program-offering-pell-grants-to-incarcerated-people-in-heavy-demand-in-california\">financial aid eligibility\u003c/a> and discriminatory admissions practices. Those who complete a degree beyond high school may face licensing restrictions for certain careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of students like Javier has already made a cultural shift in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall, with more students eager to pursue higher education, said Lucia Moritz, executive director of student programs at the Alameda County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Javier] mentors other students,” Moritz said. “There’s been a lot of youth who will say, like, he’s the one who motivated me to step up my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As graduation nears, Javier wants to attend law school because of his familiarity with the juvenile justice system. He has faced legal limbo for years over whether he should be tried as an adult for a violent crime he is accused of committing when he was a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that uncertainty and the challenges of incarceration, he said education has given him a sanctuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t let these walls trap me in,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That struggle marked Javier’s own childhood. He grew up in a Mexican immigrant household in Hayward with nearly a dozen family members, including his mother, siblings and other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was heavily influenced by the gang culture of his uncles and his neighborhood. By 13, he landed in juvenile hall for assault and armed robbery, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People knew what school I went to and who I involved myself with. So I didn’t really want to go to school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 15, he said, he and his friends survived a shooting. Shortly after, in ninth grade, he dropped out. He said he felt dismissed by teachers who routinely sent him to the principal’s office for what he described as small infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 17, Javier returned to juvenile hall. There, older friends from the neighborhood who were also incarcerated encouraged him to finish high school. 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He began to feel a sense of belonging and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went from being quiet to being the main person answering all the questions on the whiteboard, being the first one to raise his hand,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Javier graduated from high school and enrolled in online classes at Laney College in Oakland, with support from Incarceration to College. He excelled, lobbied to take a full-time course load and even cross-enrolled in a UC Berkeley class. As a junior, he transferred to Cal full-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He shone. He was an A+ student,” said Victoria Robinson, a senior lecturer in ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. “He’s thirsty for education. You can’t give him enough material…to the point where the syllabus wasn’t enough. He just wants to keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a transformative move, Robinson flipped the classroom dynamic. Instead of Javier joining remotely, she brought the classroom to him — teaching from inside the juvenile hall while students tuned in via Zoom. Some students also went to Javier’s facility to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057234\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shani Shay (right), director of Incarceration to College, works with Laney College student Bryan Minero at the program’s offices on the UC Berkeley campus on Sept. 9, 2025. 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