Holly Kernan

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Recent Pieces from Holly Kernan

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The Race to an Emergency--(2 Part show) (58:59)
From: Making Contact

When you call 911, who answers the phone? How do they decide who to send to the scene, and how fast will they get there? We bring you a 2-part special—The Race to An ...
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Remembering the attack on Pearl Harbor through the eyes of students (05:19)
From: KALW

In October, President Obama declared that a major chapter in American military history was about to come to a close... PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I can report that, as ...
Caption: Emily DeCory’s family was one of many Laguna tribe families that moved to Richmond, California, to work on the railroad.

Witness to History: Richmond’s boxcar village (07:40)
From: KALW

The Bay Area has historically been a population magnet, but few have arrived here to find that their new homes would be train boxcars – still on the tracks – in Richmond, ...
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Youth Speaks: the poetic changemakers (08:32)
From: KALW

Sometimes stories are told in the privacy of a booth, like the StoryCorps booth in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. And sometimes they’re told on stage. Jamaica Osorio is ...
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Non-profit helps low-income earners save for the American dream (09:03)
From: KALW

As recent graduates struggle to find jobs, they do so with an alarming amount of student debt. Education debt has now surpassed the nation’s credit card debt, which means ...
Caption: Barbara Thompson, right, is the director of the DOD's Office of Family Policy/Children and Youth. Photo by Elaine Wilson

What can be done to support military families? (06:39)
From: KALW

Military families like Tracy Crawford’s are becoming more and more common, though the challenges they face remain. That’s being acknowledged by many people in our nation’s ...
Caption: Sokhom Mao (right) will be the next Commissioner of the Alameda County Juvenile Justice/Delinquency Prevention Commission

Changing the foster care system from the inside out (10:43)
From: KALW

Twenty-four-year-old Sokhom Mao was one of California’s foster kids. He’s one of the few who went on to college – in 2010, Mao graduated from San Francisco State University. ...
Caption: elva Davis (right) interviewing Coretta Scott King., Credit: Courtesy of Belva Davis

Belva Davis on reporting during the tumultuous ‘60s (07:56)
From: KALW

In 1964, the Republican Party was holding its convention in San Francisco. Barry Goldwater was running for president. President Johnson had recently signed the Civil Rights ...