The most popular African American-helmed comedies of the 1980s and 1990s made millions of people laugh, but San Francisco ...

MONTEREY HERALD -- Anne Adams Helms frolicked as a child in Yosemite, where her mother ran a small artist’s studio that doubled as the family home. Her father was a photographer and an environmental ...

In 2018, San Francisco State University announced a $25 million gift from alumni and philanthropists George and Judy Marcus, the largest gift in University history. Five years later, the gift ...

WCBE-FM (COLUMBUS, OHIO) -- Mathis was better than pretty good in music and athletics. He set the high-jump record while attending college at San Francisco State. Mathis also competed against future ...

SYFY WIRE -- Most cartoon characters are unaware that they’re naked, unless a designer puts them into a costume. Animation historian and San Francisco State media professor Karl Cohen says that early ...

The Program in Visual Impairments, Comic Studies & The Longmore Institute on Disability Present: Innovations in Accessible Comics for blind & low vision readers. A conversation with the prizewinners ...

CONTRA COSTA TIMES -- Mims grew up in Bay Point before moving to Pittsburg, where he met his wife of nearly 50 years, Darlene Mims.

WORLD LINK (COOS BAY, OREGON) -- The new “Figuratively Speaking” show will consist of oil painting and sketches by W.M. (Wendy) Ralston-Burger of Lakeside. Ralston-Burger explores the space between ...

SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC PRESS -- Though the city has long used a ranked-choice voting system, prior ballots couldn’t accommodate more than three choices. Now, voters can rank up to 10. Jason McDaniel, ...

With the end of the semester and Commencement approaching, it’s celebration season at San Francisco State University, and many colleges, departments and organizations are honoring students’ successes ...

Long before his illustrations would be seen at restaurants and on television, LeRoid David drew art in school yearbooks. Not just the covers. Every year he would sign dozens of yearbooks with a ...

Caro De Robertis spent election night 2024 in their Oakland home, huddled around the TV with their children, ages 12 and 15. “My kids are Black and Latinx, growing up in a queer family, with one trans ...