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Everyone Belongs Here: Restoring Hope on Brook Street in Lafayette

Halloween is a bitter-sweet time for Omari Fullchange. It’s a time he looks forward to spending with his nearly 2 year old daughter and other families in the neighborhood. It’s also the one year anniversary of the day he was stopped and frisked in front of his home and the beginning of what he hopes can be a new chapter in his healing.

Menopause Monologues Are Coming to Town Hall Theatre

September 29, 2024 Newscast

Poverty Scholars & Roofless Reporters Solution to Homelessness

Weekend Evening News September 22, 2024

From East Oakland to the South Yuba River, we'll hear from folks who are at the center of people-led movements for change.

Nothing About Us Without Us, A Poor and Formerly Unhoused People's Solution to Houselessness

Alanis Morissette--Community, Belonging & wholeness

An in depth story of navigating homelessness & college at the same time

Sunday July 21, 2024--Newscast Preview

Farmer's Markets Are For EVERYONE!

A summertime favorite for many of us is the ritual of attending weekly music and market events which happen each Thursday at Todos Santos Park in Concord in the summer and year-round on Tuesdays. While accompanying my neighbor who is a senior citizen, I learned about a match program that's meant to make the market accessible to EVERYONE across the economic spectrum. This week, I spoke with the vendor from what is arguably the most popular spot at the market--Rodriguez Organic Strawberries, the Market Manager, the assistant manager, who also happens to be a remarkable artist.