Lea Ceasrine

On this edition of Your Call, retired California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell discusses her new memoir, Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It. In 1982, Judge Cordell became the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court of Northern California. We'll discuss the future of abortion in the US, the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal, and the guilty verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case.

On this edition of Your Call, we’re discussing the health effects of wildfire smoke. While the Bay Area’s air quality has been mostly spared, Tahoe and Reno currently have some of the worst air quality in the world. In 2020, the Bay Area experienced a record 30 straight days of bad air quality alerts in August and September. A new Harvard study finds that wildfire smoke likely contributed to thousands of COVID-19 deaths in California, Oregon and Washington. How can we protect ourselves?

Published May 11, 2021 at 2:00 AM PDT "We Are the Land: A History of Native California" is out now. On this edition of Your Call, we’re speaking with William J. Bauer, co-author of We Are the Land: A History of Native California, which centers the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous People who shaped it. Scholars estimate at least 310,000 Indigenous people lived in what is now California.