Frank and Leticia Romo's shrine to their son Sergio's baseball career in his childhood bedroom in Brawley, California. About 25,000 people live in this farm town, out in the desert scrubland. Main Street is a dusty arcade of shuttered stores. Unemployment is over 30 percent, among the highest in the state. There's no big college, no stadium. But the town has sent a bumper crop of 21 players to the major and minor leagues. (Marcus Teply/KQED)
In the early innings of Game 6 against the Cardinals this fan was already celebrating. (Scott Shafer/KQED)
Screenprints flutter in the breeze at Frank Ogawa Plaza as people gather on October 25th for a march and protest marking one year since the Occupy Oakland encampment was raided by police. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)
Occupy Oakland marchers stare down Oakland police officers at Washington and 8th streets on Oct. 25, 2012. (Don Clyde/KQED)
Oakland Police line up and ready themselves for protesters at corner 14th and Clay. (Twitter.com/worthoftheworld)
When the door opened at West County Detention Facility for Tamisha Walker, she was alone. No one was there to pick her up. Three years later, Tamisha Walker is advocating for what she knows first-hand: reintegrating into the community after spending time in jail. She's a founding member of the Safe Return Project, a group that is speaking up for reentry in Richmond. (Julie Brown/Richmond Confidential)