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The Bay Turns Out and Turns Up for Women's Sports

The Bay Area has always known how to win — from the Giants’ World Series titles to the Warriors’ championships, the 49ers’ Super Bowl runs, and the Sharks keeping the ice alive. Now women’s sports are claiming that same City of Champions legacy, turning San Francisco — and the whole Bay — into a national powerhouse, from professional soccer and basketball to flag football to packed sports bars. On this episode of North Gate Radio we feature 6 stories on how women in The Bay are making sports more inclusive, proving profitability, and pushing the industry to catch up.

Death, Doulas, and Digital Afterlives

Dying often involves a set of choices, rituals, and conversations we tend to avoid until we can’t. In the Bay Area, people are confronting that reality head-on: talking openly in Death Cafes, seeking natural burials, flying loved ones home across borders to honor final wishes. On this episode of North Gate Radio, 5 reporters examine death and dying in The Bay and Silicon Valley's promise of digital immortality.

North Gate Radio Presents: The Stakes Explained

North Gate Radio Presents The Stakes Explained. A multi-media series where UC Berkeley professors, frontline journalists and community members unpack President Trump’s executive orders and actions to see what’s at stake for our democracy. A full transcript for this episode can be found at https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/radio/show/the-stakes-explained/

Community Resistance — At Home and Abroad

From the Bay to Bogotá, reporters dove deep into how communities are coming together in times of strife. In Oakland, statewide homelessness policy is shaping how advocates are organizing in the face of sweeps. Also, federal funding cuts are coming down hard on an LGBTQ center on the shores of Lake Merritt. A researcher at the California Institute for Integral Studies walks us through a new framework for thinking about neurodiversity. Two reporters traveled abroad to South America to document the legacy of “El Sistema,” which trained generations of Venezuelan musicians. Their reporting took place in Colombia, home to many Venezuelan migrants who have left the country in the wake of political turmoil and upheaval. These pieces were made in collaboration with Royvi Hernandez through Berkeley Journalism’s International Reporting Project. This is a recording of North Gate Radio that was broadcast live on KALX radio station, 90.7FM. A full transcript for this episode can be found at https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/radio/show/community-resistance-at-home-and-abroad/

Community Culture: Finding Childlike Joy and Giving Back to the Community

It’s pretty stressful out there right now, so this week, our reporters went to find out what people do when they are not spiraling about the current state of affairs. They discovered that they collect cute little figurines in the form of ‘Blind Boxes’, they form new women’s elite rugby teams and they wrestle each other to the sound of jazz music at Oakland’s own Queer Fight Night. In Albany, there is a new mayor who is prioritizing healing on the local level and the non-profit, Meals on Wheels, is fighting to keep funding to provide much-needed food and human connection to seniors. This is a recording of North Gate Radio that was broadcast live on KALX radio station, 90.7FM. Aa full transcript for this episode can be found at https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/radio/show/community-culture/