What California’s new immigration laws mean, from mask bans to state oversight of ICE in hospitals and schools.
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Voices from the community: Hopes for East Bay youth / Voces de la comunidad: Esperanzas para los jóvenes del este de la bahía
In the months following our reporting on youth gun violence in Oakland, El Tímpano invited community members to share their concerns, experiences, and hopes. For two Saturdays in August, we engaged with the community at the César E. Chávez Oakland Public Library branch and at a backpack giveaway at Tennyson High School in Hayward. During our […]
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Preventing the next tragedy
Senseless killings and the Oakland-based organization trying to fight them.
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The day the text never came
Shortly after four o’clock one cloudy day in mid-March, Maria Jose Gonzalez noticed something odd. Her 15-year-old son, Derbing, hadn’t been in touch on his way to soccer practice like he usually would. “I always knew that at that time he was on the bus,” she recalled, speaking in Spanish. ”He always sent me text […]
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Rays of Resilience: El Tímpano’s community-powered COVID anniversary coverage
This year, upon the fifth anniversary of the start of COVID-19, El Tímpano invited community members to reflect on the pandemic. How did they experience the virus? How did their families adapt? What did they lose, and what surprising changes came about? The stories below are a compilation of what we heard. Lea este post […]
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Rayos de Resiliencia / Rays of Resilience
In the five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, themes of loss, illness, uncertainty, and resilience have echoed through the stories shared with El Tímpano by the East Bay’s Latino and Mayan immigrants. This past spring, we invited our community to reflect on their experiences during the early months and years of the […]
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How historical memory fueled last weekend’s detention center protest in the East Bay
Not yet subscribed? Click here to sign up for our weekly emails. The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter. Growing up, Doug Yoshida’s parents didn’t share many details about their imprisonment in what the government called “internment camps” during […]
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Telling the untold: Two students and their teacher document Oakland’s Mam community
I wasn’t used to hearing anything about my Mam culture at school. Most classes focused on U.S. history, or maybe Mexican history, but never Mam. My only knowledge of my culture came from my parents and my family, tales of their lives in Guatemala and what they endured to get us to where we are […]
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Announcing the Immigrant News Coalition
Documented, Conecta Arizona, El Tímpano, Sahan Journal and Listening Post Collective announce the formation of the Immigrant News Coalition.
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TPS in limbo for tens of thousands of Central Americans
Not yet subscribed? Click here to sign up for our weekly emails. The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter. I’m happy to be back in the newsroom after spending several weeks out of the country for an international reporting […]