H.I.V. Survivors Confront Painful Memories and New Risks in Pandemic
July 20, 2020 In a 15-minute trip to the pharmacy, Jim Morgan, 66, had touched the entrance door, the checkout counter and his face. “I felt like I was covered in red ants because I felt so contaminated,” Mr. Morgan said. When he returned to the car with his partner, Doug Bennett, 70, Mr.…
Read MoreRemembering mother and daughter Carolina Tovar and Leticia Ramirez
July 16, 2020 Carolina Tovar, 86, and her daughter Leticia Ramirez, 54, lived minutes apart from each other in Rowland Heights, a community in the San Gabriel Valley. Everyone in the family knew Ms. Ramirez was her mother’s go-to: She drove her to dialysis treatments, shopping and any place else she needed to go. They…
Read MorePortraits of Essential California Workers
Nicholas Mastrelli at his family’s store, Molinari Delicatessen in San Francisco. Stephanie Penn July 2, 2020 With resilience and a sense of duty, these workers in the San Francisco Bay Area are performing vital services even as the pandemic and protests swirl around them. Andreus Oliver, Budtender at Barbary Coast Dispensary As customers walk into…
Read MoreHow Black Lives Matter Reached Every Corner of America
June 13, 2020 View the stunning interactive project here.
Read MoreHow the Pandemic Is Making It Tougher to Study Whales
June 29, 2020 For residents of San Francisco, the sight of gray whales making their way into the bay this spring has been a rare treat. But for local marine scientists, the whale sightings have brought increasing alarm. The coronavirus pandemic is upending their effort to determine why, for the second year in a row,…
Read MoreAn Asian-American Author Talks About Racism in the Pandemic
June 24, 2020 By Thess Mostoles Kelly Yang, a young-adult novelist based in San Francisco, was teaching a free writing class for teenagers on Instagram Live in March when she began to talk about how her writing has been affected by surging xenophobia against Asian-Americans in the coronavirus pandemic. As Ms. Yang was talking, one of…
Read MoreWanda DeSelle
June 17, 2020 When talk of retirement came up, Wanda DeSelle, 76, would always laugh it off. “I’ll retire after you do,” Mrs. DeSelle would tell her boss of 40 years, Dr. Mohammad Ashraf, a cardiologist seven years her junior. “She’d say, ‘If you’ll work for another 20 years, then I’ll work for another 20…
Read MoreHow Paradise High’s Class of 2020 Got Its Graduation
The students and parents pushed and prodded over 10 weeks for an exception to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shelter-in-place order. June 15, 2020 PARADISE, Calif. — When Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to fight the coronavirus by closing down the entire state, including schools, the seniors at Paradise High School began peppering local officials with one…
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Read MoreWhy Researchers Hope to Test High-Risk Groups in California
May 18, 2020 OAKLAND — In his 20 years in and out of homelessness, Ollie Harris, 69, has seen a lot of things. But what happened on a recent Friday was new. Sitting outside his tent on a patch of ground he and his wife staked out near Lake Merritt, he watched a white…
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