by October Gallery
Francisco Perez is an unlikely activist. The retired roofer and his wife, Graciella, have rented their one-bedroom apartment in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood for the past 20 years. Perez lives a…
Greedy gringos are taking over the Latinx neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. The new Netflix series, “Gentefied,” gives viewers a look into the lives of a Mexican-American family…
Eddie Murphy was back on “Saturday Night Live” in “Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood” — a spoof on Mister Rogers’ program in a different section of town. This time, the issue of…
Many people in Washington, D.C., are celebrating a recent successful effort to bring the sounds of go-go, a genre of music rooted in black culture, back to a city intersection.…
The official trailer for the Sundance Film Festival breakout “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” which has sparked conversations among viewers about gentrification and family legacies, was released Thursday.…
This segment originally aired November 3, 2017, on VICE News Tonight on HBO. When the Boy Scouts of America announced it would soon allow girls to join … source
It started with a letter in Bettye Washington’s mailbox. “Move out, move on,” the letter said, as if leaving East Austin after spending 80 years there would be a simple…
Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America’s most expensive and affluent cities, San Francisco is increasingly out of reach for people who would be card-carrying members…
Max and Stacy discuss the ‘rent is too damn high’ activism moving past polite and into direct confrontation with the ‘gentrifiers.’ Max continues his interview with Jameson Lopp of… source