Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast. How High School Students Launched Their Own #MeToo Movement During the Pandemic When most schools across California shut down last year, teenagers were stuck at home. For some, that meant months alone to reflect on experiences of trauma in high
Following this week’s attempted coup at the US Capitol, many people around the world are realizing just how fragile our democracy is. But some immigrants who come here seeking a dream realize pretty quickly that the image they had of life in the US is very different from the reality. KQED’s Chloe Veltman has the story of two men from Africa who both started graduate studies at UC Berkeley during the pandemic. That was hard enough, but they also found themselves grappling with racism in a place that’s supposed to be one of the most progressive in the world.