Second and third graders from Oakland's New Highland Academy marched to the library with a police escort on Thursday, February 21 to protest the gun violence that halted their weekly trips. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)
Jeremy Beasley is a 43-year-old inmate who spent 15 years in California's highest-security lockup, Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit. At Pelican Bay inmates like Beasley are locked around the clock in a small cell, except for a 90-minute period when they are placed in a concrete pen. There are no windows.(KQED, Center for Investigative Reporting)
It's burrowing owl season in Berkeley. The town has dedicated Cesar Chavez Park on the Marina a safe spot for these birds, designated a "species of special concern." Docents are sometimes on hand to educate visitors about the camouflage-savvy owls. (Neil Mishalov/Berkeleyside)
A crowd of about 100 students and faculty at City College of San Francisco marched into the college's administration building Thursday, Feb. 21 to deliver a list of demands to interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman. They are calling for administrators to fight for equal access to education even as an accreditation crisis threatens to close the school. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)
An aerial photo of Santa Cruz-area food and drink makers. Andrea Blum has always been curious about the people behind our food, which led her to create My American Pantry (MAP), a start-up company that promotes regional food and drink producers across the country. Blum is laying the groundwork for an online marketplace with a series of aerial photos of food artisans with their goods. (Photo by Andrea Blum of My American Pantry and Kenny Blum Photography)
A young girl waves a protest sign at the San Francisco Forward on Climate rally on Sunday, Feb. 17. More than 3,000 protesters gathered outside One Market to demand President Obama take immediate action on climate change and reject plans for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada down to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (Sean Greene/KQED)
