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Vicious influenza strain sweeps state

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

SACRAMENTO » The flu got off to an early start this season and has been on a vicious tear throughout t California. State health officials have confirmed 17 deaths of...

Anda Chu — Bay Area News Group Berkeley photographer Mimi Plumb poses for a photograph with a picture from her exhibit ‘Pictures from the Field’ currently on display at California Humanities in Oakland on Nov. 29. As a young photography student, Plumb documented farmworkers during the summer of 1975, while Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union marched to mobilize farmworkers to vote in union elections.

Images of California farm workers movement unearthed

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

OAKLAND >> In the summer of 1975, Mimi Plumb, then a 20-year-old art student who had grown up in Walnut Creek, set out on an adventure of a lifetime with...

Women listen to Cesar Chavez speaking at a farmworker’s rally in Oxnard during the summer of 1975. - Mimi Plumb

Berkeley photographer documents California’s farm workers movement

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

OAKLAND >> In the summer of 1975, Mimi Plumb, then a 20-year-old art student who had grown up in Walnut Creek, set out on an adventure of a lifetime with...

With wildfires raging, a grim reminder to prepare

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

OAKLAND >> If the Valley, Rocky and Clayton fires weren’t enough, the Northern California wildfires that continued to cause mass destruction this week should be a wake-up call for all...

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