The California Report Magazine

Dec 06 2024 381 ep. 29 mins 623
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Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.

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'He Played With People’s Minds': Fresno Priest Left a Trail of Sexual Abuse Allegations

Dec 06 2024 29 mins  
KQED’s Alex Hall has spent years reporting on the criminal case of Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna, formerly known as Father Antonio to his Central Valley parish. For a decade, Castañeda drew in hundreds of followers from Fresno’s Latino Community to his Spanish-language congregation, earning him the nickname, “el padrecito que hace milagros (the priest who performs miracles

Poultry Party: Two Tasty Stories from the Archive

Nov 29 2024 29 mins  
Maybe you’re still munching on your Thanksgiving leftovers. Or maybe you’re too stuffed to even think about eating. But before you push away from the table, we’re bringing you two of our favorite stories from over the years about…food! We start in East San José, at a scrappy strip mall anchored by a Vietnamese sandwich, or “bánh mì” shop doesn’t look like much. But

A Wildfire Survivor's Long Road; A French-Algerian Bistro in the Desert

Nov 22 2024 29 mins  
This winter marks six years since Jennifer Porter and her family survived the deadly Camp Fire, a disaster that claimed 85 lives and burned over 150,000 acres. While Porter was lucky enough to drive through the flames that day, the fire set her on a new, harrowing path: building a new life for herself while healing from trauma. KQED’s Pauline Bartolone checked in with Porter alon

“Like a New Person:” Life After Homelessness; How Schools Can Serve Unhoused Students

Nov 15 2024 29 mins  
While homelessness in the Golden State may feel like an intractable crisis, some unhoused people are able to get back on their feet–and find solutions that last. KQED’s health correspondent Lesley McClurg profiled two women in the Bay Area who spent years on the streets, and turned their lives around when it felt like there was no way out. Chantel Hernandez-Coleman overcame dec

What Trump 2.0 Could Mean for California; Kev Choice Makes Room for Hip-Hop in Classical Music

Nov 08 2024 29 mins  
After a momentous election this week, Californians are trying to make sense of what a second Trump presidency could mean for the Golden State. Governor Gavin Newsom and other Democratic Party leaders are fighting to protect the state’s progressive values on immigration, climate change and reproductive rights ahead of Trump’s inauguration. Host Sasha Khokha spoke with KQED’s p

First Time Latino Voters Embrace Their Political Power; New Film Digs Into Gold Rush Myths

Nov 01 2024 29 mins  
Latinos make up the second largest voting group in the upcoming 2024 election, totaling 32 million eligible voters nationwide. But Latinos are not a monolith, and both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been courting Latino voters on the campaign trail. Andrés Cediel is a filmmaker and a journalism professor at UC Berkeley. He’s also a producer o

Even Californians Who Can't Vote Are Focused on the Election

Oct 25 2024 29 mins  
Six-year-old Sumaya Kaur Sidibe beamed with pride when she watched Kamala Harris become Vice President in 2021. She identified with Harris in a big way: she is also mixed race – Indian and Black – and she’s from Oakland. We produced a story about the family preparing for Kamala Harris to take office back in 2021. But four years later, Sumaya has complicated feelings about the

Great Redwood Trail Proposal Unearths Painful History for Indigenous Tribes

Oct 18 2024 29 mins  
California has grand plans to turn a stretch of abandoned railroad tracks into 300 miles of walking and biking trails, connecting the rolling hills of Marin County with the redwood forests near Eureka in Northern Humboldt. If completed, the Great Redwood Trail could become the longest rail-trail in the nation. But some Indigenous communities and other groups are not on board. Repor

Forced Sterilization Survivors Undertake Own Healing After Feeling 'Silenced Again' by State

Oct 11 2024 29 mins  
Moonlight Pulido is a mother and a caretaker for her own mom in Los Angeles. But she couldn’t have more children after a prison doctor gave her an involuntary hysterectomy while she was incarcerated in 2005. She’s one of hundreds of living survivors of state-sponsored sterilization. Here in California, more than 20,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in state prisons, hom

Fighting for Reparations in Palm Springs; Uncovering Women Miners' Forgotten Legacy

Oct 04 2024 29 mins  
You might think of Palm Springs as a wealthy town filled with luxury hotels and swimming pools. But it's also a place shaped by brutal racism. People who lived in Section 13, a once a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood, were pushed off their land. Their homes were bulldozed and burned down. Now, The California Report’s Madi Bolanos. talked to some of the former residents