LIFT EVERY VOICE Lessons from their legacies Bay Area Black elders sit down with young journalists of color to share stories of the past, offer visions …
Lift Every Voice
Bay Area Black elders sit down with young journalists of color to share stories of the past, offer visions for the future and reflect on being Black in America.
Barbara Rodgers made a career out of listening. When others downplayed or dismissed voices at the margins, she paid attention. A Bay Area broadcast …
The Rev. Amos Brown is the embodiment of history. A champion of the American civil rights movement, Brown has experienced firsthand what most have …
At age 85, Betty Reid Soskin started a new career. She took a job as a park ranger at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in …
Walter Riley hadn’t dreamed of becoming an activist. His initial goal wasn’t to battle segregation in the Jim Crow South. However, growing up in the …
Standing on the San Francisco 49ers field at 6-foot-8, Harry Edwards could easily be mistaken for a former football player. However, Edwards isn’t a …
There may be no one on Earth who knows the words and writings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. better than Clayborne Carson. In 1985, Coretta Scott …