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Fascinating conversations held at the annual Uncharted Berkeley Festival of Ideas, produced by Berkeleyside, Berkeley, California's independent, local news site.
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JUN 8, 2022
What could reparations for Black Californians look like?
Oaklandside contributor Corey Antonio Rose spoke to participants at a California Reparations Task Force listening session in Oakland on May 28, 2022, about why reparations matter to them, and interviewed task force chairperson Kamilah Moore about what reparations might entail, who stands to benefit, and what comes next.
9 MIN
OCT 19, 2021
Remembering the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm
The '91 "Tunnel Fire" was one of the most destructive fires in U.S. history. To mark the 30th anniversary, The Oaklandside and Berkeleyside co-produced a 30-minute podcast looking back at the blaze that forever changed how the East Bay looks at wildfires.
31 MIN
SEP 10, 2019
Talk Berkeley to me
"Outta pocket." "Bootsy." "On mamas." The East Bay has always been a laboratory for creative slang. Berkeley High School in particular is known for having its own language of sorts — documented in the late 90s and early 2000s in the Berkeley High Slang Dictionary. As students head back to school, we take a look at whether this unique way of speaking is still thriving in the age of gentrification and social media — and what new words are in use today.
19 MIN
APR 24, 2019
The Pipping Party
Berkeleyside's Tracey Taylor talks about falcons and the Cal falcon webcam —which is keeping a watchful eye on Annie and Grinnell, two peregrines who made their nest in the clock tower of the Campanile on the UC Berkeley campus — with raptor mavens Allen Fish, director of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, and Douglas Bell, wildlife program manager at the East Bay Regional Park District (who shows off his splendid falcon imitations). What makes wildlife webcams so mesmerizing, what happens after falcon eggs hatch and what is a pipping party? https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/03/19/first-peregrine-falcon-egg-laid-at-uc-berkeley-watch-nest-live
26 MIN
JUN 13, 2018
Uncharted Episode 29: Learning to be a black man in America
What's the script for black manhood? Mychal Denzel Smith unapologetically upends assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for black men so that depression and anxiety aren't considered taboo, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. Denzel Smith, author of of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, talked with Uncharted Berkeley Festival of Ideas Co-Curator Helena Brantley about black manhood today and the heightened awareness of racism in Trump's America.
40 MIN
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