Local organizers in Vallejo have been raising the alarm about police brutality for years. Among them is Club Stride, Incorporated, an organization dedicated to cultivating civic participation in communities of color and empowering youth led by executive director and founder Dr. Rhonda Renfro. Club Stride and its youth organizers like Raven Manigault, a recent Howard University graduate who aspires to become a judge, have long been confronting structural inequalities, including police violence.

San Francisco Public Press publisher Lila LaHood talks with 48Hills publisher Marke Bieschke and arts editor about his new book "Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protests in the United States," which gives background and context for a long legacy of uprising and civil disobedience around the nation. Bieschke also discusses what this history means in light of recent the recent wave of protests against police brutality.

In this press conference, hear Mayor London Breed and Director of Health Dr. Grant Colfax discuss the expansion of coronavirus testing. San Francisco is conducting more than 3,000 coronavirus tests per day, but backlogs are developing at labs and a rising demand is making it more difficult to schedule a test. Testing capacity will be expanded by about 1,400 tests per day in the coming weeks.

Working from home could become the new norm, emptying out San Francisco’s office highrises. Two architects imagine how those buildings could become housing and even farms as part of an eco-friendly post-pandemic downtown.

Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced legislation that aims to keep landlords from engaging in construction work in ways that disrupt the lives of their tenants who are sheltering in place. Tenant Andrea Carla Michaels says her power and water are frequently shut off without warning and construction work is done without proper dust mitigation. Peskin's proposal would require that landlords provide alternative electrical and water supplies if the construction they’re doing results in either being shut off.

In this press conference, Mayor London Breed said that San Francisco has been added to the statewide watch list of counties due to the rise in infections. As a result, on Monday indoor malls and non-essential offices will be required to close. Dr. Grant Colfax, director of the county's Department of Public Health, said that a health directive would require private hospitals to conduct same day testing for residents showing coronavirus symptoms and for health care workers in high exposure environments.

As workers head back to their jobs, they are navigating the new workplace safety reality of operating in a global pandemic. Labor organizers say the protections against catching the novel coronavirus on the job are insufficient at many workplaces, and lack enforcement. They allege that California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, is critically short-staffed. A spokesperson for Cal/OSHA said in an email the staff shortage doesn’t keep the agency from meeting its mandate.

In this press conference, Dr. Grant Colfax, San Francisco's director of public health, says San Francisco cases of COVID-19 are surging. Colfax said the rate of hospitalization could rise ten-fold by the fall if current trends continue. Gatherings of friends and families appear to be fueling the rise in cases, he said. Listen to his full remarks here.

The coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected people of color throughout the Bay Area. At a panel organized by the coalition of health departments known as BARHII, Black community leaders from fields ranging from public education to community development to transportation said those most affected have not been given a seat at the table when it comes to determining the region’s pandemic response. In these excerpts from their remarks, they discuss initiatives they have set in motion to support their communities during the pandemic and what they would like to see done next.