Kqeds Perspectives

Leticia Monroy juggles work, school and her young child's early learning challenges.

Ali Shah says the failure of a proposed soccer super league is a rare defeat for American-style elitism.

Alice Chen says anti-Asian racism is all about excluding Asian Americans as "other."

The resumption of Kevin Cool's poker game is at hand. It's about time.

Olive Savoie stands up to her peers when they utter a bigoted phrase.

YR Media's Luke Thomas experienced the year of the pandemic through the lens of a camera.

Teenager Kimberly Higareda feels pressured to take on responsibilities she may not be ready for.

Teenager Karen Chau says the pandemic has taught her to treasure opportunities from the mundane to the exceptional.

Alina Jafri finds a role model in a comic book.

Michael Ellis tours the three types of desert in California.

Laura Weil says the pandemic has made us look at everything differently, including how we die.

Sandhya Acharya looks at the year of the pandemic and considers what she will miss and what she won't.

Paul Staley celebrates the day before his birthday as a reminder that he’ll spend far more time not in this world than in it.

Jaime Flores advocates for supportive programs to keep young people out of jail.

The email that told Dorothy O'Donnell she was too old for the hiking group surprised her. Then it made her angry.

Charlotte Sivanich says too few students are taught financial literacy and many never learn.

Can plants talk to us? Lane Parker says science fact is meeting science fiction.

As schools cautiously begin to reopen, Vanessa Dueck and her young children are ready for a taste of normal.

Margie O'Driscoll set out to observe how the pandemic has changed San Francisco.

Angel Island graces San Francisco Bay, but its buildings house one of the darkest times in American immigration history, when Chinese, even Chinese American citizens, were subjected to harsh discrimination. Larry Jin Lee has this Perspective. I have not been on Angel Island since I was a teenager and a visit was long overdue. But I was not fully aware back then of the historical significance of Angel Island to my family. My great grandfather and grandfather were detained there several times even though they were U.S. citizens. Angel Island, unlike Ellis Island, was not built to welcome tired and poor huddled masses but to reject as many Chinese immigrants as possible. Many had long forced stays. There were hysterical fears of Chinese at the time, and, yes, the term invasion was often invoked, fomenting anger and scapegoating them for depressing wages. Thus, the first federal immigration law was also the first directed at a single racial group — the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Chinese American citizens coul