“He was bringing people together”: Why was Dr. Marcus Foster murdered?
In 1970, Dr. Marcus Foster was hired as the first Black superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District. Widely recognized as one of the greates...
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East Bay history podcast that gathers, shares & celebrate stories from Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Unearthing “lives of the dead”: A tour of Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery
When Oakland’s most prominent graveyard celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2015, SF Gate honored the occasion with this description: “There are 177,0...
Abortion, poetry, and stink-bombs: A different kind of “self-help” movement
19-year-old Laura Brown started the Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center in 1972. In the early days, Laura would answer the clinic’s phone using dif...
Tales from the pit: Lessons from Berkeley’s landfill
These days the East Bay’s waterfront is lined with parks, restored wetlands, marinas, and beaches, but for most of the twentieth century this shorelin...
"End of the line": How we lost the Key System
Long before BART or AC Transit, East Bay commuters relied on the Key System, a network of electric streetcars, for local travel and even to cross the ...
Long Lost Puzzle: What happened to the grizzly bears and old growth redwoods?
Up until the 1850s, the East Bay was home to hundreds of grizzlies and some of the tallest redwoods in the history of the planet. Within about a decad...
“You get to play a game of detective”: Longtime librarian Dorothy Lazard uncovers a whole new world
As a librarian at the Oakland History Center, Dorothy Lazard helped countless patrons research their connections to the past. In her new memoir “What ...
A curious conversation: Myth-busting and more with Olivia Allen-Price
For the past eight years, Olivia Allen-Price has been solving local mysteries and debunking myths on her KQED podcast Bay Curious. Each week the show ...
From volcanoes to potholes: Excavating stories below the soil with Andrew Alden
Did you know that downtown Oakland is built on ancient sand dunes? Or that the East Bay hills used to be honeycombed with quarries and mines? Or why F...
“Time is not money”: Challenging clocks, nostalgia, and more with Jenny Odell
In her new book “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,” Jenny Odell takes a tour of the Bay Area. She begins at the Port of Oakland and tr...