Catching Up With Sarah Mizes-Tan
CapRadio’s Race and Equity reporter joined the station a year ago.
Sarah-Mizes-Tan
It’s become almost cliché to say that COVID-19 has laid bare the racial and economic inequality in America, but one reason we can even talk about that fact is that intrepid journalists interpret data for us. On a local level, CapRadio’s first-ever Race and Equity reporter, Sarah Mizes-Tan, has been producing multiple stories each week on the intersection of race, health and politics.
Mizes-Tan moved to Sacramento to take the job at CapRadio in February 2020. When asked about her most memorable story in her relatively brief tenure thus far, she mentioned an April piece on inequity in the City Council’s distribution of pandemic-relief loans to small businesses. Her story contained the shocking fact that not a cent of the $1 million in loans went to any business in the Little Saigon district along Stockton Boulevard. Nick Miller, t
As Joe Biden pledges to unite a fractured nation, the incoming president faces deep divisions on the national front and widening fissures within the Democratic Party.
A public intellectual steps down
Published January 7, 2021
What is a public intellectual and who stepped down?
One definition of the word from Collins Dictionary is “an intellectual, often a noted specialist in a particular field, who has become well known to the general public for a willingness to comment on current affairs.”
I think of a public intellectual as a smart someone who is an expert in an important field, such as history, economics, science, and health and who has earned the trust of the public.
On the national scene, think of people like Jon Meacham, a writer of best-selling books about the presidency and American history. When he puts his history lessons to work explaining modern day political challenges, people listen. Similarly, North Carolina’s presidential historian William Leuchtenburg, who will celebrate his 100th birthday next year, is still writing and commenting on current issues.
By the delicate hand of Didier Kassaï (
Storm Over Bangui) comes a comic book documentary about the street children of Bangui, told in a style that mixes photo and illustration. In the Central African Republic, children grow up in a state of insecurity, poverty and malnutrition. The 2013 conflict only exacerbated this situation. The Central African Republic has become what many call “a house without windows.” Through illustrations and photos, this comic takes you into the heart of this “forgotten crisis.” With Central African artist Didier Kassaï and British photojournalist Marc Ellison as your guides, watch children at work in a diamond mine, observe life in a refugee camp and meet the street children of Bangui. Marc Ellison is currently based in Glasgow, Scotland, though this award-winning photojournalist’s favourite subject is Africa. Difficulties of reintegration of girl soldiers in Uganda, practices of female genital mutilation, topics on child marriage in T