As Restaurant Workers Struggle, This Man Fields Their Calls | SoCal Connected | KCET
Podcast | 6 years ago
Since March the calls haven’t stopped for Manuel Villanueva, a community organizer with the Restaurant Opportunities Center. Thousands of cooks, waiters and dishwashers have struggled since then to survive since the shut down orders. In this episode of I WA...
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Using his Truck as Stage, Man Drums up Cheers in Quarantine
Podcast | 6 years ago
Street drummer Anthony Sheriff bangs out the beats off of the back of his Ford pickup truck while offering spontaneous concerts in neighborhoods throughout the city. In this episode of I WAS THERE, Sheriff explains how his drums became a lifeline, rescuing ...
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The Fight to Know | SoCal Connected | Season 10, Episode 7 | KCET
Podcast | 6 years ago
In the beginning of 2019, California, one of the nation’s most secretive states when it comes to police files, passed SB1421. The new law made public thousands of police records pertaining to police dishonesty, sexual assault and use of force. And in an unp...
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Under Pressure | SoCal Connected | Season 10, Episode 5 | KCET
Podcast | 6 years ago
Parents are willing to spend thousands to get the competitive edge in the college admissions process, but at what cost? Socal Connected takes a revealing look at the high stakes world of the for-profit education consultant business. The following changes we...
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Fire Station 9 | SoCal Connected | Season 10, Episode 8 | KCET
Podcast | 6 years ago
Take a rare behind-the-scenes look inside the busiest fire station in the country, where firefighters act as both primary care providers and emergency responders for the nearly 5,000 people living on Skid Row. Want to learn more? Watch more SoCal Connected ...
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Born to Run | SoCal Connected | Season 10, Episode 4 | KCET
Podcast | 6 years ago
The Los Angeles Jets youth track and field club is one of the oldest and most established running teams in California. It was founded in South Los Angeles in 1973 by then West Vernon Elementary school teacher Ron Moore. Five years later James Robertson and ...
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Who Killed Josiah? | SoCal Connected | Season 10, Episode 2 | KCET
Podcast | 6 years ago
A Humboldt town is polarized over allegations of racism and police incompetence surrounding the death of college student Josiah Lawson. Want to learn more? Watch more SoCal Connected at https://bit.ly/3RDN0hN ~~~~~~ Subscribe to KCET YouTube Channel: https:...
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I WAS THERE: Chokeholds, Blacks & LAPD Chief Daryl Gates
Video | 6 years ago
It was May 1982 when LAPD Chief Darryl Gates called UCLA cardiologist Dr. Richard Allen Williams with a question. Gates had a “hunch” that Blacks were dying more frequently from chokeholds because their veins or arteries didn’t open up as fast as “normal pe...
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LA’s Las Cafeteras on Life in Lockdown
Guide | 6 years ago
“Things feel like they’re falling apart. But the artist will utilize whatever moment in time that can be traumatic and make something beautiful out of it.” When Las Cafeteras’ singer Denise Carlos got the call that their upcoming tour was cancelled, she fel...
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Trevor Jackson Protest Video
Video | 6 years ago
Trevor Jackson is an art student at Loyola Marymount University. As part of an ongoing project documenting quarantine life in Los Angeles, Jackson attended Saturday’s march in the Fairfax District. He soon found himself in the middle of several tense situat...
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Laura Chick Challenged LA’s Powerful Police Union
Video | 6 years ago
“I was never one of the councilmembers that the [Police Protective League] could march into my office and say, ‘We need you on this one, Laura.’” When former City Councilwoman Laura Chick came into office after the 1992 civil unrest, she was the first woman...
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I WAS THERE: Inside A COVID-19 ICU
Podcast | 6 years ago
A Southern California nurse discusses her work inside a COVID-19 ICU and warns the coronavirus is far from over. The footage seen in this episode was filmed by the nurse and with the permission of the patient’s family. Learn more at https://www.kcet.org/cor...
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