How to help kids navigate tracking apps, social media, sexting and more
‘Kids feel watched but not seen,’ writes columnist Heidi Stevens. “Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World,” Devorah Heitner’s fantastic new book, begins with a clear-eyed message for those of us raising or shaping young people today. Children believe they are being watched but not seen. Heitner, a screen media expert…
UC Berkeley scholar faces renewed calls to resign over false Native American identity claims
Anthropologist Elizabeth Hoover admitted in May that she is ‘a White person’ UC Berkeley students and Native American scholars have renewed calls for anthropologist Elizabeth Hoover’s resignation, after she publicly admitted in May that she is “a White person who has incorrectly identified as Native my entire life.” The calls for Hoover to leave UC…
Is Gen Z the generation that knows how to make the most out of travel?
Survey: Younger generations are more likely to travel just for fun. It’s easy to see why Generation Z (defined as anyone born after 1997 by the Pew Research Center) has a different worldview than Generation X and even millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996). Generation Z has never known a world without the internet,…
‘All we want is revenge’: How social media fuels gun violence among teens
The U.S. surgeon general has issued a call to action about social media’s corrosive effects on adolescent mental health. Juan Campos has spent the last 16 years working to protect at-risk teens from gun violence. He witnessed the allure and power of gangs as a street outreach worker in Oakland, California. And he helps teens…
Former NBA star Kevin Johnson to open a soul food kitchen in Oakland
Fixins Oakland will serve chicken and waffles, deep-fried deviled eggs and “Adult Kool-Aid.” Kevin Johnson, former NBA player and Sacramento mayor, intends to expand his soul food empire to Oakland. The full-service restaurant, Fixins Oakland, is set to open next spring near Lake Merritt. Other Fixins Soul Kitchen locations include Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Tulsa,…
De La Salle’s 2001 team named best high school football team ever by ESPN
The 2001 De La Salle Spartans, with junior running back Maurice Jones-Drew, were named as the top high school football team ever by ESPN Throughout his NFL career, Maurice Jones-Drew had one topic that could always get teammates riled up and ready to argue: Which was better, my high school or yours? Jones-Drew was always…
San Jose Airport passenger trips cruise to higher levels in July
Despite robust upswing, San Jose airport remains well below pre-COVID heights SAN JOSE, Calif. — As it struggles to recover from the effects of the coronavirus, San Jose International Airport handled at least 1 million passengers for the fourth month in a row. In July, the South Bay aviation hub served nearly 1.15 million passengers,…
UC Riverside professor resigns over ‘pretendian’ claims, but will keep teaching for another year
‘Academia has become a pretendian factory,’ says Jacquelyn Keeler, a journalist and citizen of Navajo Nation Following a complaint from 13 faculty members, an ethnic studies professor at UC Riverside whose claims of Cherokee ancestry have been called into question for 15 years and sparked public outrage has agreed to resign. Andrea Smith will be…
Mariners rally past A’s, 5-4, as Seattle finishes with best month in team history
SEATTLE (AP) — On Wednesday afternoon, the Oakland A’s nearly matched their best month of the season. Instead, it was their opponent, the Seattle Mariners, who wished August would never end after rallying to defeat the A’s 5-4. “Isn’t there like 60 days in August?” “I wish there was,” joked Mariners manager Scott Servais. “What…
