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WEBAround Berkeley: Rod puppets, polymer clay jewelry, guitarist Shelley Doty. Other events include a “land and sea” party for Waterside Workshops and a documentary screening about noted architect and designer Eliot Noyes. September 12, 2024. Berkeley author spent years on a book about ‘sounds and silences.’. Then she started losing her ...
11 years of radical thought and action in Berkeley led to creation …
WEBMay 10, 2019 · In October 1963, Madame Nhu spoke at Cal. As the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief-advisor to President Ngô Đình Diệm, she was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963.SLATE members conducted a small demonstration outside Harmon Gym where she was speaking.. In early 1964, the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination picketed San Francisco auto dealers ...
How a little-known Berkeley group sparked the 1960s student …
WEBDec 12, 2018 · How a little-known Berkeley group sparked the 1960s student movement. SLATE pre-dated the Free Speech and anti-Vietnam War movements. Its members protested racial discrimination by holding ‘shop-ins’ at Lucky’s supermarket on Telegraph Avenue. Student members of the Ad Hoc Committee, as well as members of SLATE, carry signs on Bancroft ...
How much does your Berkeley neighbor pay in property taxes?
WEBOct 27, 2020 · Walk the leafy streets near UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus and you’ll come across a three-bedroom, three-bathroom home whose value Redfin puts at $2.34 million. Its owners are paying $28,000 a year in property taxes. Go farther on the same block and you’ll see another three-bathroom, three-bedroom home with a …
How Kamala Harris’ childhood in Berkeley influenced her
WEBJul 21, 2024 · Shyamala, who came to UC Berkeley from India in 1958 to get her Ph.D., met and married a fellow graduate student, Donald Harris, an immigrant from Jamaica. They separated when Harris was young. As a child, Kamala Harris lived with her mother and sister in the top unit of this West Berkeley Bancroft Way property. Photo: Steven Finacom.
Kamala Harris’ childhood homes in Berkeley
WEBAug 19, 2024 · 1227 Bancroft Way. People took to the street in front of Harris’ childhood home at 1227 Bancroft Way after she was elected vice president on Nov. 7, 2020. Credit: Wayne Hsieh/Flickr. Harris’ mother then moved the family to a new rental home in West Berkeley, on Bancroft Way, between Browning and Bonar streets.
New West Berkeley homeless shelter opens as city emerges from …
WEBJul 2, 2021 · Tents in rows at the shelter the Horizon Transitional Shelter at 742 Grayson St., which opened on July 1, 2021. Credit: Supriya Yelimeli. Berkeley officials cut the ribbon on a year-round, 24-hour homeless shelter in West Berkeley on Thursday, ending the city’s pandemic-long search for an outdoor sanctioned encampment with the opening of an indoor shelter that will be home to about 50 people ...
Live theater returns to Berkeley Rep with 'Wintertime'
WEBNov 19, 2021 · Charles L. Mee’s ‘Wintertime’ is the Berkeley Rep’s first live production since the beginning of lockdown. Nora el Samahy (Maria), David Ryan Smith (Edmund), Micah Peoples (Jonathan), James Carpenter (Frank), and Thomas Jay Ryan (Francois) in Berkeley Rep’s production of Charles L. Mee’s Wintertime, directed by Les Waters.
Berkwood Hedge School opens a middle school this fall
WEBJul 8, 2021 · Berkwood Hedge School, a progressive independent elementary school in Central Berkeley, is opening a middle school this fall in the historic Northside neighborhood. The middle school will open its doors in early September with grades 5 and 6, and will expand to include grades 7 and 8 over the following two years.
Redlining: The history of Berkeley’s segregated neighborhoods
WEBSep 20, 2018 · Betty Reid Soskin, a 96-year-old Berkeley community member and the nation’s oldest park ranger, remembers those times.In the 1940s and 1950s, racial housing discrimination was just a fact of life, she said. “We knew that we could not buy property above Grove Street [now known as Martin Luther …