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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Looking for weekend plans? Consider getting your hands dirty this weekend to celebrate Saturday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/national-public-lands-day\">National Public Lands Day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual event means all federally managed lands — including properties stewarded by the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — are free to enter on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also an opportunity to give back by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036573/volunteer-bay-area-non-profits-what-helps-opportunities\">volunteering\u003c/a> — and there is a wealth of National Park Service sites within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/getinvolved/volunteer.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a> that are \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/volunteer/national-public-lands-day-2025\">hosting their own volunteering events\u003c/a> this weekend in celebration of National Public Lands Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for how to get involved outdoors over the next few days, and remember that some events may require signing up in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteering opportunities in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/events/register?fid=46&eid=30996\">Tend to young trees in the Presidio,\u003c/a> where reforestation efforts are underway, alongside the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/presidio-forest-stewards\">Presidio Forest Stewards\u003c/a> (9 a.m. to noon).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/events/register?fid=46&eid=31430\">Head to Fort Mason\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/black-point-historic-gardens\">help cultivate Black Point Historic Gardens\u003c/a>, which has been around since 1850 but is still in need of maintenance. (9 a.m. to noon).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250418_BirdwatchingTeens_GC-63_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250418_BirdwatchingTeens_GC-63_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250418_BirdwatchingTeens_GC-63_qed-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250418_BirdwatchingTeens_GC-63_qed-1536x988.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hummingbird perched on a tree branch at Crissy Field in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/events/register?fid=46&eid=30986\">Spend the morning helping to restore\u003c/a> the Presidio, San Francisco’s own National Park Service site, alongside the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/presidio-habitat-stewards\">Presidio Habitat Stewards\u003c/a> (9 a.m. to noon Saturday).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/events/register?fid=99&eid=a0wUQ000006rHIb\">Head to the East Beach of Crissy Field\u003c/a> to work on the vegetation along the San Francisco Bay shoreline, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/events/baker-beach/golden-gate-historic-landscaping-and-maintenance\">Golden Gate Historic Landscaping and Maintenance group\u003c/a> (9 a.m. to noon Saturday).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other ways to volunteer in the Bay Area this weekend\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Looking for volunteer opportunities a little further afield? Here are a few more ideas for how to spend your Saturday celebrating National Public Lands Day (and most events include a free lunch).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.neefusa.org/npld/long-ridge-open-space-preserve/trail-maintenance-achistaca-trail\">\u003cstrong>Long Ridge Open Space Preserve off Skyline Boulevard\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Join the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District for a half-day of maintenance work on the Achistaca Trail (9 a.m. -1 p.m.).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055114\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-30-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-30-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-30-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-PRESIDIOHIKES-30-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariah Tengler (left) and Andrew Rouse walk with dogs Oro and Atticus on the Lobos Creek Trail in the Presidio on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.neefusa.org/npld/quail-hollow-ranch-county-park/pace-trail-building\">\u003cstrong>Quail Hollow Ranch County Park in Felton\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Help expand the trail network while protecting native ecosystems near Santa Cruz (9 a.m. -1 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.neefusa.org/npld/lake-sonoma/lake-sonoma-clean-day-1\">\u003cstrong>Lake Sonoma in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work with volunteers to clean up the park’s shorelines, day use areas and boat ramps. 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\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. 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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>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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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Jessica Kariisa, in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bilal Mahmood \u003c/strong>[00:00:07] Thank you all for being here. We’re here to discuss an extremely important issue concerning our neighborhood here in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:15] Back in March, there was a press conference in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco about young people getting involved in the drug trade. The neighborhood supervisor, Bilal Mahmood, spoke vividly about the dangers facing the children of the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bilal Mahmood \u003c/strong>[00:00:33] I’ve heard disheartening stories of children in our neighborhood who are being pulled into the drug trade, some as young as 13 years old. For the sake of our neighbors, we cannot allow this to become normalized. Every child in San Francisco deserves…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:48] Reporter Cami Dominguez was covering that press conference, and it made them wonder about the experiences of kids all over the Tenderloin, which has the highest concentration of children in the city. Cami wondered not just about the hard stuff we often hear about in the news, but also what life was like for these kids every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:01:16] They just kept mentioning, like, oh, what about the children, the children in the Tenderloin? Like, the drug usage problem and the unhoused population, it’s like, how are children supposed to navigate this? And then that’s when I realized, what about the kids? I really wanted to hear and see that perspective from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:34] So Cami, alongside the nonprofit 826 Valencia, gave about 20 kids in the neighborhood disposable cameras, and for one week, they documented their lives. Today, what the Tenderloin looks like from a kid’s point of view. I want to talk about the project that you were involved in. What was the idea behind it and how did it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:02:03] So the intent behind my project was to kind of be able to visually illustrate what it’s like to be a kid in the Tenderloin just day to day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:02:15] Cami Dominguez is a California local news fellow with the San Francisco Public Press. They originally reported this story for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:02:25] I emailed a bunch of after school programs in the neighborhood. 826 Valencia, which is a local nonprofit that is kind of dedicated towards helping low income community, children kind of develop their creative writing skills, they were super enthusiastic to hear about my project. It was about 20 kids. I gave them all disposable cameras and the week after that, the pictures were printed and developed for them to kind of see and look. And just kind of write about it, tell us more about why you took that picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:03:00] Could you tell me a bit more about the kids that actually participated in this? Like what, you know, their ages, their backgrounds?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:03:10] So these were kids specifically that lived in the Tenderloin or that went to the Tenderloin community school. This specific group of kids were second to fifth grade and oh my god they were such a lively group of children. I went into one of their classes and they introduced me as Miss Cami and it was very phasing for me because these kids did not know how to use disposable cameras so I was just trying to give them like a step-to-step guide but they were very receptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:03:50] A lot of the pictures that I got back were so, like, vivid, so, oh my god, I cried when I first got those pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohammed Haidar Khaled \u003c/strong>[00:03:58] This represents me in childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:04:01] So one of the kids that I met was Mohammed Haidar Khaled, who is now 10 years old. He was the central figure of my story and I think took some of the most impactful images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohammed Haidar Khaled \u003c/strong>[00:04:13] This is my friend Samira, she’s been with me since kindergarten, she loves my aunt. She’s really fun and playful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:04:22] He documented a lot of his family, a lot of school. He took a lot pictures with his friends and when I went through all of his pictures with him and he was very intentional with every picture that he took. It was actually kind of incredible seeing the eye, the photographic eye he has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohammed Haidar Khaled \u003c/strong>[00:04:43] This is my other parrot, the reason why she’s locked up in a cage is because people stole her two times and she’s 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:04:53] He took a picture of like his pet bird, he took a picture of all of his cousins, him going on like public transit, commuting to school. It was just a very well-rounded group of pictures that represented what it is like to grow up in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohammed Haidar Khaled \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] Yeah I took these pictures to remember stuff and like myself and how young I was and when I took this and how creative I was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:25] So we’re looking at this photo by Mohammed and I just love it so much. Cami, could you describe it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:05:32] You remember those giant parachutes? That you used to have in like probably elementary where all of the kids kind of line up in a circle and they kind of toss the parachute up and then they all run underneath. I don’t know how Mohammed did this, but this picture is of one of his friends under the parachute. It’s perfectly framed. Where the friend just kind of goes in front of the camera and strikes like a simple smile. But you can see all of the kids kind of holding up the parachute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohammed Haidar Khaled \u003c/strong>[00:06:04] This is my friend Ahmed. He took a picture when we were inside. And my friends are all around the balloon. And these are my teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:06:19] Yeah, I used to love that game so much and I feel like the smile on his friend’s face that he captured is like the exact feeling I had when playing parachute as a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:06:31] It really is this perfect encapsulation and Mohammed said it himself where it’s this is a moment that only happens in childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mohammed Haidar Khaled \u003c/strong>[00:06:38] This is like childhood. Childhood is really fun. So you’re going to miss on childhood when you get older. So I try to take as much pictures of childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:06:48] His voice was very unique. It felt very meta to talk to such a young child who had such a perspective on life that I definitely did not have as a 10-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:07:05] It’s funny, I mean, there’s so many beautiful photos in this photo essay, you know. There’s photos of flowers and just like beautiful images of like the street being captured from outside a window. But there was a really simple image that really struck me by Miguel Parra. And it was just of like a street sign, just of Turk Street, you now. And then he writes in the accompanying paragraph that people don’t realize how beautiful the Tenderloin is, you know, and it’s like beautiful because it’s his home. Can you talk a little bit more about how the Tenderloin as a neighborhood and just like a neighborhood to be proud of showed up in these photos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:07:46] I wanna develop that and frame that. Because it’s so simple yet so effective of what it is literally like to be in an apartment in the Tenderloin. Like, that is uniquely an angle that you would only be able to get from someone who lives in the neighborhood. I think that that was one of the more striking things to see is also the addition of the writing aspect. It was so touching because a lot of kids did include, like, this is my home, this is the Tenderloin. Like, oh, if someone’s new to San Francisco, I want to show them that the Tenderloin is beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:18] Yeah, and even just capturing the feeling of being a kid, like I’m thinking of Vianney Campos’ photos. She has some really fun ones of her friends sticking their tongue out and just being really playful. Can you introduce us to her and what she told you about this experience?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:08:38] Yeah, that was one of the more fun interviews that I had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] So Vianney Campos and her best friend, Zi-Anna Jones, they did the interview together. They were like, we’re sticking through it together. We want to go through these pictures together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:08:58] Why did you pick this picture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vianney Campos \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] I picked this picture because it means my friendship with her means a lot. 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So yeah a lot of Vianney’s pictures were her and Zi’Anna at the at the park or at like some field trip that they were going to. Regardless of destination, the two of them were for sure interlinked, so it was very sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vianney Campos \u003c/strong>[00:10:00] Oh my gosh, I didn’t know you took that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:10:07] What do they say about living in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cami Dominguez \u003c/strong>[00:10:11] Zi-Anna, at the end of it, you know, we had just finished going through all of their pictures and just a wrap-up question that I wanted to ask them is what does living in the tenderloins mean to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zi-Anna Jones \u003c/strong>[00:10:23] We’re proud of living in this neighborhood, and there’s a lot of fun places to go to. And when I grew up in this neighborhood, it’s like home to me. 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The suit accused ICE of turning 12-hour holding cells in the downtown office building into a jail where people are detained for days with no beds, hygiene or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson said he did not observe egregious conditions on Monday, but he noted that his visit was planned in advance. It was not a response to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the conditions shown to me appeared orderly and maintained, leadership at the facility was given prior notice of my visit,” he told KQED in a statement. “I will continue to closely monitor reports of undue detainments and improper conditions at the immigration facilities near our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement building at 630 Sansome St. in San Francisco, California, on Feb. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ47/PLAW-118publ47.pdf\">law\u003c/a>, members of Congress have the right to conduct inspections of immigration detention facilities without providing advance notice. However, in recent months, ICE has repeatedly\u003ca href=\"https://www.pogo.org/analysis/ice-barring-congress-from-detention-facilities-is-illegal\"> blocked \u003c/a>members of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pogo.org/analysis/ice-barring-congress-from-detention-facilities-is-illegal\">Congress \u003c/a>from entering detention facilities. In July, a dozen lawmakers who were denied access \u003ca href=\"https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1-Neguse-v.-ICE-Complaint.pdf\">sued\u003c/a> the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, the sixth-floor cells at the Sansome Street ICE office were intended for temporary custody while immigrants awaited transfer or processing for release, according to the lawsuit. But in January, ICE rescinded a national policy that limited the use of such temporary “hold rooms” to a maximum of 12 hours.[aside postID=news_12056762 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg']Since then, people arrested at Northern California immigration courts, at ICE check-in appointments and elsewhere have been locked up overnight — some as long as six days — and have nowhere to sleep but a metal bench or the floor, with the lights on around the clock, the suit alleged. They must share a toilet with no privacy, have nowhere to bathe and are denied soap and toothpaste, according to the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of several people who were held there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants do not conduct a medical intake or use a medical questionnaire to identify the needs of people being detained in the hold rooms,” the suit said. “Defendants routinely fail to provide for the proper administration of prescription medications, and they do not allow detained people to make arrangements to access their prescription medications or keep medication with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin denied the charges in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any claim that there are subprime conditions at ICE detention centers are false,” she wrote. “In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most US prisons that hold actual US citizens. All detainees are provided with proper meals, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with lawyers and their family members. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Sign up for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/k-onda\">\u003cem>Click here to subscribe.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against a sky blue backdrop, Laysa Cazares painted a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> poppies. With a tiny brush, she used shades of orange to create petals just a few millimeters wide that looked like they were fluttering in a breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lifelong artist, Cazares’ favorite medium may seem unusual: fingernails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little canvas where you can put whatever you want, and it’s wearable art, which I think is really cool,” the 29-year-old said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cazares, raised in Manteca and now based in San Francisco, is among a growing number of high-end nail artists elevating traditional manicures into works of art amid the booming multibillion-dollar beauty industry. She has built a following for her three-dimensional, airbrushed and hand-painted nail designs that incorporate fashion, her Mexican heritage and meticulous artistry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, her right hand featured metallic charcoal gray adorned with polka dots, which she said are trending. Her left hand showed a light blue-hued design with three-dimensional spheres inspired by a bubble bath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055054\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laysa Cazares pulls gel from a container during a nail-sculpting class at Sparkle SF in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. 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For another, she shaped long, pointy nails to resemble plant leaves dotted with 3D ladybugs and raindrops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like clay, so you can just mold it and then you paint it and you can do whatever,” she said. “That wasn’t a thing 10 years ago until recently, so it’s really cool to be able to make whatever you want on your nail.”[aside postID=arts_13981143 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/240916_ElGrito_EG_007-1020x680.jpg']Her love affair with nails started early. She remembers waking up early — and sometimes being late — because she painted her nails in the morning to match her outfit. She credits her older sister for introducing her to painting, ceramics and other crafts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After high school, Cazares decided against college but wanted a career in art. She didn’t see a clear path until her sister suggested she become a licensed nail technician, which she did in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents were skeptical at first, questioning how she could earn a living wage doing manicures and pedicures. Nail technicians \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/manicurists-and-pedicurists.htm\">made an average\u003c/a> of $16.66 per hour or about $34,660 a year in 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The industry has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11275303/nail-salon-workers-allege-wage-theft-indicate-larger-exploitation\">history of labor exploitation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have immigrant parents, they’re from Mexico, and my mom, one of her favorite sayings, ‘I didn’t cross a country for you to not be successful,’” Cazeres said. That made her more determined to pursue nail art in a way that would be lucrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, she immersed herself in nail art while working at a Fremont salon specializing in designs with long acrylic tips, which were popular at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a full clientele and it just clicked like, ‘Oh, I really could actually live off of this and have it be my career full time,” she said. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Oh, maybe going to school would have been cool, too.’ But I love nails and I love art. So being a nail artist just works. I get to combine both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, she moved to Miami, which also has a robust nail industry. She returned to California last December and now works at Sparkle SF, a salon in San Francisco’s Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polaroids of staff and visitors decorate a wall inside Sparkle SF in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. The studio doubles as both a workplace and a creative hub for nail art. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is just such a fun, quirky, unique place where even the older generations are into nail art,” she said. “Younger people will do all the crazy stuff, and they’re not scared to get 3D. They’re not scared to like chrome or airbrush or anything. They’re down to try it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparke SF is strictly for nail art and doesn’t offer pedicures, massages or facials, said owner Mia Rubie, who started the salon more than a decade ago and has watched nail art continuously evolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, there’s so many possibilities with nail art,” thanks in part to social media, she said. Clients “are making it a very personalized experience, like something tailored to their own interests or something that they’re into or dedicating nails to somebody else or things like that. People are discovering that you can use it as a valid expression of art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The history of nails is very multicultural,” said Jillian Hernandez, a professor of women’s studies at the University of Florida who leads the Full Set Project, a team of scholars researching the nail industry. The intricate nail designs innovated by Vietnamese nail techs caught on with Black and Latina women, who helped turn long, brightly decorated nails into bold fashion statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team plans to release a documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://historymiami.org/event/film-screening-panel-discussion-full-set-a-celebration-of-miami-nail-artistry/\">\u003cem>Nail Tech: Portrait of an Artist\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in December, chronicling the career of Miami-based nail artist Kro Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055053\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An assortment of intricate nail designs displayed at Sparkle SF in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. The salon is known for showcasing bold, colorful and three-dimensional nail artistry. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over the last decade, particularly the last five years since COVID, there was increasing interest in self-care practices, but also famous women of color like Cardi B, for example, entered the mainstream and also entered spaces of fashion and brought their own aesthetics to these spaces,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift from seeing nails as simple grooming to fashionable art is slowly changing how workers in the industry are viewed, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets to this fundamental question of how do we value workers? We tend to undervalue care work because it’s associated with women and people of color,” she said. “All nail techs are artists, and they should be respected for their labor, whether they’re in the corner salon or whether they’re in these highly specialized studios doing nails for celebrities. That’s extremely important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of nail art is also rising as designs require more expertise and time. At Sparkle, prices start around $60 for a basic manicure, but intricate designs can cost a few hundred dollars and take several hours. Cazares said her designs typically last about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nail artist Laysa Cazares works at her station inside Sparkle SF in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most expensive set she has ever done took eight hours, covered both hands with Swarovski crystals and cost $1,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nails aren’t a necessity; they are a luxury,” Cazares said. “I love the feeling of feeling put together, and for a lot of people, this does that for them. For women who work corporate tech jobs, their jobs are so demanding; this is a form of self-expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That resonates with San Mateo resident Cristina Medina, 30, who had her first manicure in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom always had her nails done for as long as I can remember, so I think I got it from her, the habit of getting my nails done,” she said. “I’ve always correlated getting my nails done as a way of self-pampering, of taking care of myself. It helps me feel more put together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-K-ONDA-NAIL-ARTIST-DIPTYCH-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-K-ONDA-NAIL-ARTIST-DIPTYCH-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-K-ONDA-NAIL-ARTIST-DIPTYCH-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-K-ONDA-NAIL-ARTIST-DIPTYCH-1-1536x867.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Specialty designs by San Francisco nail artist Laysa Cazares. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Laysa Cazares)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Medina has a standing appointment every three weeks. Her designs range from a simple French tip to more seasonal creations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to spice it up during the holidays,” she said. “For example, Halloween and Dia de los Muertos are coming up, so I might mess with orange, brown colors or even pumpkin. It really gives me that creative freedom and gives me a way to express myself throughout the year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cazares is hosting an event this month called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nomicreativestudios.com\">Hexed by Nail Bruja & Friends\u003c/a> to showcase nail art the way an art gallery exhibits paintings. The Friday event will also feature vendors, tarot card readings and cocktails, and will run from 6–9 p.m. at a retro pinball arcade at 1767 Waller St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Clarification:\u003c/strong> An earlier version of this story said “Latina and Black women pioneered long, brightly decorated nails as fashion statements well before the mainstream embraced the look, she said, while many Vietnamese women have worked in salons.” To clarify, the professor emphasized that Black and Latina women helped popularize and bring visibility to nail art as a cultural fashion statement, while Vietnamese women, many of them immigrants, played a central role in the nail salon industry where the style was widely practiced.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Her love affair with nails started early. She remembers waking up early — and sometimes being late — because she painted her nails in the morning to match her outfit. She credits her older sister for introducing her to painting, ceramics and other crafts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After high school, Cazares decided against college but wanted a career in art. She didn’t see a clear path until her sister suggested she become a licensed nail technician, which she did in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents were skeptical at first, questioning how she could earn a living wage doing manicures and pedicures. Nail technicians \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/manicurists-and-pedicurists.htm\">made an average\u003c/a> of $16.66 per hour or about $34,660 a year in 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The industry has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11275303/nail-salon-workers-allege-wage-theft-indicate-larger-exploitation\">history of labor exploitation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have immigrant parents, they’re from Mexico, and my mom, one of her favorite sayings, ‘I didn’t cross a country for you to not be successful,’” Cazeres said. That made her more determined to pursue nail art in a way that would be lucrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, she immersed herself in nail art while working at a Fremont salon specializing in designs with long acrylic tips, which were popular at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a full clientele and it just clicked like, ‘Oh, I really could actually live off of this and have it be my career full time,” she said. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Oh, maybe going to school would have been cool, too.’ But I love nails and I love art. So being a nail artist just works. I get to combine both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, she moved to Miami, which also has a robust nail industry. She returned to California last December and now works at Sparkle SF, a salon in San Francisco’s Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polaroids of staff and visitors decorate a wall inside Sparkle SF in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. The studio doubles as both a workplace and a creative hub for nail art. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is just such a fun, quirky, unique place where even the older generations are into nail art,” she said. “Younger people will do all the crazy stuff, and they’re not scared to get 3D. They’re not scared to like chrome or airbrush or anything. They’re down to try it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sparke SF is strictly for nail art and doesn’t offer pedicures, massages or facials, said owner Mia Rubie, who started the salon more than a decade ago and has watched nail art continuously evolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, there’s so many possibilities with nail art,” thanks in part to social media, she said. Clients “are making it a very personalized experience, like something tailored to their own interests or something that they’re into or dedicating nails to somebody else or things like that. People are discovering that you can use it as a valid expression of art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The history of nails is very multicultural,” said Jillian Hernandez, a professor of women’s studies at the University of Florida who leads the Full Set Project, a team of scholars researching the nail industry. The intricate nail designs innovated by Vietnamese nail techs caught on with Black and Latina women, who helped turn long, brightly decorated nails into bold fashion statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team plans to release a documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://historymiami.org/event/film-screening-panel-discussion-full-set-a-celebration-of-miami-nail-artistry/\">\u003cem>Nail Tech: Portrait of an Artist\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in December, chronicling the career of Miami-based nail artist Kro Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055053\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An assortment of intricate nail designs displayed at Sparkle SF in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. The salon is known for showcasing bold, colorful and three-dimensional nail artistry. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over the last decade, particularly the last five years since COVID, there was increasing interest in self-care practices, but also famous women of color like Cardi B, for example, entered the mainstream and also entered spaces of fashion and brought their own aesthetics to these spaces,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift from seeing nails as simple grooming to fashionable art is slowly changing how workers in the industry are viewed, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets to this fundamental question of how do we value workers? We tend to undervalue care work because it’s associated with women and people of color,” she said. “All nail techs are artists, and they should be respected for their labor, whether they’re in the corner salon or whether they’re in these highly specialized studios doing nails for celebrities. That’s extremely important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of nail art is also rising as designs require more expertise and time. At Sparkle, prices start around $60 for a basic manicure, but intricate designs can cost a few hundred dollars and take several hours. Cazares said her designs typically last about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nail artist Laysa Cazares works at her station inside Sparkle SF in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most expensive set she has ever done took eight hours, covered both hands with Swarovski crystals and cost $1,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nails aren’t a necessity; they are a luxury,” Cazares said. “I love the feeling of feeling put together, and for a lot of people, this does that for them. For women who work corporate tech jobs, their jobs are so demanding; this is a form of self-expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That resonates with San Mateo resident Cristina Medina, 30, who had her first manicure in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom always had her nails done for as long as I can remember, so I think I got it from her, the habit of getting my nails done,” she said. “I’ve always correlated getting my nails done as a way of self-pampering, of taking care of myself. It helps me feel more put together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-K-ONDA-NAIL-ARTIST-DIPTYCH-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-K-ONDA-NAIL-ARTIST-DIPTYCH-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-K-ONDA-NAIL-ARTIST-DIPTYCH-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250919-K-ONDA-NAIL-ARTIST-DIPTYCH-1-1536x867.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Specialty designs by San Francisco nail artist Laysa Cazares. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Laysa Cazares)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Medina has a standing appointment every three weeks. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than five years after the brutal beating of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961693/californias-anti-asian-hate-crimes-decline-but-long-term-pattern-persists\">Yik Oi Huang\u003c/a> shook many in San Francisco’s Asian American community, the trial for a suspect charged with the attack — and a string of other violent crimes against Asian Americans — began Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keonte Gathron, 25, has been in custody since late January 2019, when he was charged in connection with seven attacks, including Huang’s beating, multiple armed robberies, a kidnapping and two carjackings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s facing more than two dozen counts ranging from elder abuse and felony robbery to murder, upgraded from attempted murder after Huang died a year after her attack. If convicted, he could face life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the alleged criminal encounters have been officially called a hate crime, and during his opening statement, Assistant District Attorney Nathan Quigley did not allege that Asian Americans were directly targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But six of Gathron’s seven alleged victims were of Asian descent. Asian Justice Movement organizer Charles Jung said even without that distinction, the pattern speaks for itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the effect on the community, he said, has been the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Five people congregate around park benches in front of a jungle gym in an outdoor park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-11-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors spend time together at Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Formerly Visitacion Valley Park, it was renamed in May 2022 in memory of Yik Oi Huang, a senior who was brutally beaten at the park and a year later, died from her injuries. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When someone allegedly victimizes multiple people of the same ethnicity in rapid succession, as is alleged, the impact is the same, I would say,” he told KQED. “It has the impact of terrorizing a community and making people feel unsafe because of who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quigley laid out the harrowing series of Gathron’s attacks to the jury in great detail, first illustrating how he knocked over Dhung My Chung from behind, stealing his keys and driving off in his car on Jan. 3, 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Quigley alleged that Gathron robbed Guifeng Yu on the street at gunpoint, grabbing his phone and cash before demanding Yu lead him back to his home.[aside postID=news_11961693 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-03-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Yu, who lives alone, instead led Gathron to a family member’s home nearby, hoping they would be there to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the house was empty when they arrived. As Gathron ransacked the place, Yu ran to hide in a locked room. Among the items he allegedly stole was a gold necklace that closely resembled one Gathron is seen wearing in surveillance footage captured at the scenes of his later crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gathron was also accused of stealing the car of a man dropping his wife off at a bus stop on Vicente Avenue in the Sunset, days later, pointing a pistol at him and demanding the keys to his Jeep. He then allegedly stole phones from two minors at gunpoint. Quigley said he let a third teenager — his only non-Asian victim — go with her phone after she told him she needed it for school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most high-profile of the attacks occurred in the middle of his alleged spree, on Jan. 8. Gathron is accused of attacking 88-year-old Yik Oi Huang, who was known affectionately by many in the Visitation Valley neighborhood as “Grandma Huang,” while she was practicing her usual qigong, a traditional Chinese exercise that combines movement, breathing and meditation, at a local park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before sunrise, Huang had walked to the Leland Avenue park across the street from her home. According to Quigley, Gathron allegedly approached her there, beat her and stole her keys. He left her lying in the sand under a slide, bloodied and hidden from street view by a recycling bin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A play structure in a grassy park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/20230907-YikOiHuang-01-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The playground at Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park is seen in San Francisco on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The suspect then went to Huang’s home, where a neighbor saw him and called the police. After they arrived and found her home empty, Huang’s son-in-law retraced her steps, finding her at the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her shirt had been pulled up, her pants pulled down and she had sustained severe head injuries. Huang was taken to the hospital and eventually placed in long-term care until she died almost a year later, on Jan. 3, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She suffered through the massive pain and had been clinging for her life courageously,” her family wrote on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memories-of-grandma-huang\">GoFundMe \u003c/a>page set up to help pay for her funeral expenses after her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today it was very hard to watch the timeline being put together,” Jung said following the city’s opening statement. “Seeing the pictures and the video, that brought me to tears.”[aside postID=news_12033789 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250324-WongKimArk-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Gathron, who is defending himself, will deliver his remarks on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack sent shockwaves through Visitation Valley, where Huang had lived for nearly two decades. She immigrated from Toi San, China, in 1986, moving into an SRO in Chinatown while she worked as a seamstress and nanny, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rememberyikoihuang.com/who-is-yik-oi\">according to her memorial website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, when all of her children were able to immigrate to the U.S., the family pooled together enough to move into their Visitacion Valley home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over nearly 20 years, Huang’s family said she became a community presence — often walking with friends around the park or leading the Visitacion Valley Friendship Club, an advocacy and senior group serving her Chinese immigrant neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her death, the community renamed the park in her honor. The “Yik Oi Peace & Friendship Park” was dedicated last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The renaming effort is unifying us with the goals of ending cycles of violence and healing long-simmering cultural and racial divisions,” said Anne Seeman, cofounder of Visitacion Valley Greenway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the attack and the other crimes Gathron allegedly committed occurred more than a year before anti-Asian hate and rhetoric exploded in response to the spread of COVID-19, Jung believes the violence was symptomatic of a problem that predates the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What stood out to me … was that [six] of the victims were of Asian-American descent. That, in my perspective, is disturbing and I think kind of confirms the community’s fears about this particular wave [of anti-Asian hate],” he said. “I think you could describe it as a harbinger of the visibility and the anti-Asian violence that we saw during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That [violence], we already knew was plaguing the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kmonahan\">Katherine Monahan\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 23: A previous version of this story misspelled the last name of Asian Justice Movement organizer Charles Jung as Juang. It has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But it has no permanent ice cream shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ice cream social on Thursday in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco’s\u003c/a> Tenderloin was a community-led effort to serve frozen treats — and to change the narrative of a neighborhood home to 3,500 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one-time pop-up, held on a stretch of Golden Gate Avenue, was a key moment for organizers working to create safe public spaces for the neighborhood’s youngest residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vision is: how do we create the conditions necessary to make the Tenderloin truly into a place where the children can walk outside and enjoy the basic luxuries that everyone, every other child in the city, gets to enjoy,” said Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the neighborhood, and who helped hand out ice cream cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was the first in a series planned by Mahmood’s office and the Golden Gate Greenway Coalition, a group of local nonprofits led by St. Anthony’s. 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Their hope for the Greenway is to create a vibrant “campus” where neighbors can access critical services and community organizations can meet them where they are, according to Haims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s needed, especially for the kids and the community,” said Monique Collins, who attended the event with her 12-year-old son, Khryee Crowder. “A lot of kids and community people in general that don’t live down here are afraid to come down here. 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The coalition plans to host more positive community gatherings like this ice cream social — including the foundation’s 75th Anniversary Block Party on Oct. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Haims, the hope is that by hosting more of these events, the community can begin to “crowd out” some of the challenges that have long plagued the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term, the coalition said they aim to add a large, kid-themed mural, additional trees and enhanced street lighting to the Greenway by spring of 2026, though this timeline is dependent on securing funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 50-block neighborhood, with a population that speaks over 112 languages, is incredibly diverse, Mahmood pointed out. He said the city needs to focus on the people who live there, especially the children of immigrants and refugees, to give them the same basic luxuries as other kids in the city. 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