Bay Radical

In case you haven't noticed, I've been on a bit of a hiatus which I expect will continue at least through the summer. I've gotte...

My cute little street in the Allendale has recently become a popular dumping spot for stripped cars. I was impressed with the latest dump - ...

The Spiral Gardens produce stand was jumping yesterday!

The Trib profiled Yuri Kochiyama today. Check it out .

On Broadway and Grand today, two billboards unintentionally echo each other: United Negro College Fund: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste ...

Recommended: The African American Museum and Library is hosting a lovely exhibit right now called The African American Community in Oakland...

A friend and I took my five year old to the Enrique Chagoya exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum. She was riveted by the gory reinterpretatio...

Walter Crane's portrait of May Day's martyrs. Since 1890, workers around the world have taken May 1st off for parading, celebrating,...

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs : founded the first black newspaper in California, joined hundreds of his peers in leaving San Francisco to find his f...

A little bit of Berkeley history in last week's East Bay Express. Best revelation: the word "yuppie" was originally coined to...

Tonight, in an invitation-only ceremony in San Francisco, two Ecuadorian activists will be receiving the Goldman Environmental Prize for th...

From the Earth Sciences Library at UC Berkeley. The Center for Land Use Interpretation folks are like rangers of our post-urban and indust...

Emory Douglas' perspective on Gerald Ford It's day 4 of the Week of Book Reviews, and today I'm talking about Black Panther : T...

And on the subject of Erick Lyle , he's written an overview of utopian and dystopian literature about San Francisco for this week's ...

Five years have passed since our country started its latest war on Iraq. This issue of Erick Lyle's ongoing zine focuses mostly on his a...

I got an email a couple months ago from Mary Uyematsu Kao, the Publications Coordinator at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press. Sh...

I love Oakland Geology blog.

Today through Friday I'm going to post a book review a day. That's only 5 book reviews so I think I can handle it. Instead of thick ...

Thanks to WFMU I just discovered a great site called folkstreams . It houses short documentaries about American folk life - mostly the musi...

Demonstrator at Tlatelolco, Mexico City, October 2, 1968 from the El Universal archives The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley is hosting a ...

At the corner of Sacramento and Ashby today. Bay Area billboard observers will also be interested in the Billboard Liberation Front , the Ca...

Here's a mini follow up to that book review of Suffled How it Gush : It looks like Shon has a blog that elaborates on his Balkan rumina...

This month’s History Carnival is up at The Vapour Trail . Lots of really awesome looking posts especially about women’s history are highlig...

San Francisco State lacks ivy and graying brick and doddering old Englishmen riding their bicycles to class or whatever it is that makes for...

Scraper Bike from Da Trunk Boiz : What does this have to do with history? Not much. But check out ghost ridin' the trike!

Shon Meckfessel's Suffled How it Gush tells the story of the Balkans from the perspective of Beckett-quoting street kids, hard-luck dr...

Holy cow have I ever gotten behind on blogging! Forgive me; I'm a single, working mom and I've been trying to get into nursing schoo...

A blog carnival is a collection of blog posts on a given subject. This month's history blog carnival is up and full of interesting link...

I finally got down to the Oakland History Room to check out Billy X. Jennings' exhibit on the Black Panther Party children's school...

Old-school conservative windbag William Buckley Jr. died today. Bankrolled by the ill-gotten wealth of his oil-speculator daddy , Bill Jr. ...