Hanan Masri, whose work explores land, ancestry and her mother’s Palestinian heritage, has been crowned Berkeley’s new poet laureate. The city’s new youth laureates are friends at Berkeley High.
How I relearned to love Berkeley as a blind person
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Gun violence in Berkeley has plummeted. They helped make it happen
Live Free team members (from left, Ben Knight, credible messenger; Kentrell Killens, field services director; Twin Damaria Johnson, life coach and outreach worker; Abdul Wayne, credible messenger; Todd Walker, life coach and outreach…
The Wire: Get cash from Kaiser after $46M settlement; Cal scientists’ search for extraterrestrial life
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