In a new series called ‘Love You for You,’ KQED’s The California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha sat in on conversations between trans and nonbinary kids and the people who love them.

This week’s special episode of The California Report Magazine features a conversation about honoring trans trailblazers and creating a new, intergenerational model of activism.

This week’s special episode of The California Report Magazine features a conversation between a 79-year-old transgender Chicana activist from the Bay Area and a Gen Z nonbinary Latinx organizer from Sacramento about resilience, dignity and self-expression.

Episode 3 of KQED's new series, "Love You for You," features trans and nonbinary youth from across California in conversation with their parents.

Episode 2 of KQED's new series, "Love You for You," features trans and nonbinary youth from across California in conversation with their grandparents.

KQED's new series, "Love You for You," features trans and nonbinary youth from across California in conversation with people in their lives who love, support and mentor them so they can thrive.

Aisha Wallace Palomares, a 2025 UC Berkeley Journalism School graduate, returned to her hometown this summer to report on immigration raids targeting her community.

Nearly 600 East Bay students participated in a city-wide poetry project, helmed by El Cerrito’s poet laureate Tess Taylor.

Alicia Partnoy survived torture and violence as one of thousands of the 'disappeared' during Argentina’s political suppression and government violence in the 1970s. She shares advice with Californians on staying resilient.

Dr. Jamil Zaki of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab says the science shows that people are wired for kindness, connection and empathy.

Like Kamala Harris, Sumaya Kaur Sidibe is Black and South Asian, and she's from Oakland. She’s got some ideas about what the candidate should say when Donald Trump — or anyone else — questions her racial identity.

R ushing waterfalls. Towering mountain peaks. Late-summer wildflowers. It’s no wonder Mineral King has often been compared to the Swiss Alps. But the only road that brings visitors to this remote corner of Sequoia National Park is also, in part, what…

This story was updated on Wednesday, Sept. 27 to reference the ongoing debate in the autism community over “facilitated communication,” and to include the perspective of Jacob Rock’s neurologist on his ability to type independently. At first glance,…

This week we reprise one of our favorites in our eight-part series featuring the stories of mixed-race Californians: A conversation with W. Kamau Bell and Melissa Hudson Bell. Kamau Bell has centered conversations about race in much of his work as a…

Flavor Profile is our new series looking at how people, some with little or no experience, started successful food businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the pandemic, Rhea Patel Michel and Marcel Michel were busy working parents, trying to…

Some of the most influential female rock stars of the 1970s nearly faded away into the deep archives of music history — until now. Fanny was the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label. In fact, by 1974 they had released five…

W. Kamau Bell and Melissa Hudson Bell didn’t think it would be a big deal to either of their families when they began dating two decades ago. Both Bell, who’s Black, and Hudson Bell, who’s white, had dated people of different races before. But it was…

More people are identifying as mixed race than ever before in the U.S. — the 2020 census showed a 256% jump in people identifying as multiracial over the previous 10 years. Mixed-race kids are a growing part of that demographic. Psychologist Jenn…

Brentwood School senior Rahul Yates recently attended a national conference for student leaders focused on diversity at their schools. One exercise involved dividing the students into groups based on race or ethnic identity. Yates was assigned to the…

Half-and-half. Cream and coffee. Almost every mixed-race family develops their own — sometimes bizarre — metaphors to explain their kids to the outside world. Chicana feminist, playwright, poet and author Cherríe Moraga prefers the term “mixed…