Kqeds Perspectives

YR Media's Valeria Araujo is rethinking her future at Mills College in Oakland.

Pedro Hernandez-Ramos reminds us that the global pandemic is still raging around the world.

Rev. Barbara Foltin's church hands out Pride flags to LGBTQ+ people, their families and neighbors.

Like many, Nicolle Plescia and her family had a lot of free time during the pandemic lockdown. Did they waste it?

The life of Steven Saum's father is only slightly captured in a handful of small mementos.

Susan Dix Lyons shares a special day in the city with her daughter, and a lifetime of memories.

Dr. Thomas Plante says a toxic mix of frustration and stress is making too many people behave very badly.

Sheltering at home, Michael Ellis focuses his love for natural wonders on his own back yard.

Richard Swerdlow attends his first post-pandemic lockdown party.

When her initial response to everyday annoyances is anger, Marilyn Englander practices a better way.

When Carol Arnold needs to get away from it all she goes up and over the Sierras to the dramatic eastern side.

Joan Steinau Lester celebrates two Supreme Court decisions, both delivered in June, that are milestones for biracial and same sex unions.

Mark Clevenger's daughter is off to college and everything has changed, except what matters.

Want to change the world? Ellen Greenblatt says teach a child to read.

Evan Nichols and his aging mother belt out a few songs while driving the open road.

When any group is under attack it needs allies. Milton Chen says those allies have changed the lives of Asian Americans.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau looks at just some of the body parts whose names have their origin in the animal kingdom.

America, it is said, has a love affair with the automobile. That would not include Steve McMoyler.

It's Memorial Day and Winston Tharp has this tribute to a veteran whose promise was lost.

Andrew Lewis says an effective vaccine wipes from collective memory the very problem it was created to solve.