Thursday, April 25, 2024

Panel: SF Asian American Journalists Go Live

 


Panel: SF Asian American Journalists Go Live

Wed., May 8, 2024

6-7:30 p.m. 

Koret Auditorium 

Main Library

Immerse yourself into the world of local journalism and see how reporters cover the Asian American news beat in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Four members of the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA) who cover the Asian American and Pacific Islander news beat will discuss how authentic local reporting happens, important stories they’ve reported recently and how having reporters dedicated to the beat impacts the AAPI community. Moderated by the interim president of the AAJA-S.F. Bay Area Chapter, Harry Mok, the panel will feature Ko Lyn Cheang from the San Francisco Chronicle, Han Li from the San Francisco Standard and Ravi Kapur, CEO of Diya TV. 

aaja logoThe Asian American Journalist Association is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational and professional organization with more than 1,500 members across the United States and Asia. Since its founding in 1981, AAJA has been at the forefront of change in the journalism industry.

photo of Harry MokHarry Mok is an assistant editor in the opinion section of The San Francisco Chronicle. Previously, he was a copy editor at The Chronicle. Harry has also worked as an online producer for the Bay Area News Group, as an editor at Newsday in New York and is a former editor in chief of Hyphen magazine. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Jose State University and a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Ko Lyn Cheang photoKo Lyn Cheang joined the San Francisco Chronicle in 2024 to cover Asian American and Pacific Islander communities from the Indianapolis Star, where she had covered city government and housing since 2021. She got her start at The New Haven Independent covering criminal justice and the pandemic and has reported for the Jakarta Post and VICE News. Her work on the Indiana jail deaths crisis, evictions, substandard housing conditions and other reporting has been recognized by the IRE Awards, Goldsmith Prize, and the Connecticut and Indiana Societies for Professional Journalists. She graduated from Yale College as a Yale Journalism Initiative scholar with a philosophy major.

Han Li photoHan Li is a reporter for The Standard covering the city’s diverse Asian American communities. Born and raised in China, Han is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University with a degree in journalism and holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California. Previously, Han wrote for the World Journal, a national Chinese-language newspaper. He brings his bilingual reporting skills to The Standard. When not reporting, you can find Han checking out the Bay Area’s regional Chinese cuisine and immersing himself in Chinese American history and politics.

ravi kapur photoRavi Kapur, who you probably recognize from his time at KGO-7, is an award-winning journalist and the founder and CEO of Diya TV, which provides programming geared toward South Asian Americans. Diya TV is now the largest South Asian broadcast television network in the nation, providing relevant news, information and entertainment to the diaspora’s next generation. It can be watched for free with an antenna on San Francisco channel 30.1. 

 

Connect

The Asian American Journalists Association – Website | Asian American Journalists Association – Instagram | Asian American Journalists Association – Twitter | Asian American Journalists Association – Facebook | Asian American Journalists Association – LinkedIn 

Harry Mok – San Francisco Chronicle | Harry Mok – Twitter | Harry Mok – Instagram

Ko Lyn Cheang – San Francisco Chronicle | Ko Lyn Cheang – LinkedIn | Ko Lyn Cheang – Twitter 

Han Li – San Francisco Standard | Han Li – Twitter | Han Li – LinkedIn 

Ravi Kapur – Diya TV | Ravi Kapur – Twitter   

 

See event listing on the SFPL master calendar.

View other Magazines and Newspapers Center programs on the SFPL event calendar under the What's News heading

 

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Baseball Season at the Magazines and Newspapers Center

Believe it or not, many librarians on the 5th floor of the Main Library are avid baseball fans. Our allegiances range from the Giants to the A's to the Angels (sorry Dodgers fans). We're sort of like Marianne Moore in that way (influential modernist poet, librarian at NYPL, and avid baseball fan)--you wouldn't expect librarians to be baseball fans, would you? (Leave a comment to correct us if we're wrong!) Nonetheless we were jazzed about opening day a few weeks ago and look forward to the new season.


Here are our recommendations for keeping up with the baseball season with sports journalists: 

The Athletic 

This is a proprietary website that requires a subscription to access a lot of their features, but it is the leading standard in sports reporting. Word from our librarians is that the Athletic poached the top sports reporting talent from the legacy print media a couple years ago. From their website: "The Athletic’s 400+ person, full-time newsroom delivers premium coverage of hundreds of pro and college teams across 47+ North American markets and all 20 European football clubs in the English Premier League." The New York Times acquired The Athletic in 2022 but they have specific rules about what types of NYT subscriptions include access to content on The Athletic. Unfortunately the NYT website subscriptions we offer through SFPL do not include this access, but if you have your own subscription, you may qualify

The Athletic is a good bet if you have some disposable income to throw at another subscription and if you are into sports in general, beyond baseball. If you're primarily concerned with baseball, look no further than our very own San Francisco Chronicle... 

The San Francisco Chronicle 

Sports section, baseball beat: The SF Chronicle online has a dedicated tag for the Giants, where you can find all their reporting on the team. If you don't have your own subscription to the SF Chron's website, then this isn't much help. 

Not to fear, at SFPL we do provide a database that gives you access to the content of the SF Chronicle. 

San Francisco Chronicle - Most Recent Issues

From that page, you can read the daily paper exactly as it appears in print by clicking on the date that you'd like to read. 

You can also do a search to bring back Giants-centric content. 

The journalists who cover the baseball beat are John Shea, Shayna Rubin, and Susan Slusser primarily. You can copy and paste this search string into the search box to bring back their reporting:  

 ("John Shea" or "Shayna Rubin" or "Susan Slusser") and Giants

(search is not case sensitive)

The database will sort your results by date, so you'll see articles about the most recent games at the top of the list. 

You can try this same search swapping out Giants for Athletics or A's, etc. 

The Players' Tribune, Querida San Francisco by Sergio Romo

Sergio Romo threw one last pitch for the Giants about one year ago after helping lead the team to three world series titles for the nine years he wore SF orange. Although he had departed the Giants in 2016 and had retried from baseball in 2022, he returned in March 2023 for the last pitch at Oracle Park. The letter, published the day of Romo's last pitch, appears in Spanish and in English and offers a sentimental reflection on the power of the game within families and within communities--our misfit community of San Francisco in specific. Anyone else remember that 2010 world series win? I remember watching part of it from the emergency room at Saint Mary's on Stanyan. We so very much appreciate this stroll down memory lane with Romo, even one year on.

Los Angeles Times

What do we know about that other city down south that has a pretty famous baseball team? We know enough to know they think Dodgers fans are crawling out of the cracks even in San Francisco.


"The hat came about because I'm a Dodger fan," said shop owner Anthony Madrid, who said he opened the shop in 2013. "You live anywhere in L.A., anywhere in California, you are going to be a Dodger fan."

Anywhere in California?

"Even in San Francisco," he said. "You'd be surprised."

From "Dodgers should embrace locals who love them," LA Times April 13, 2024 

Regardless of some people's opinions they print in the newspaper, the Los Angeles Times remains a great source for California baseball reporting and SFPL provides access to a database with that content as well. 

Los Angeles Times - Most Recent Issues

A simple search from here with your favorite team's name (ahem, cough, Dodgers) may be sufficient to get you the good stuff, but if your fave is the Angels, you may need to pair your keyword angels with the keyword baseball because angels is used to describe much more than a baseball team in everyday nomenclature. Just remember to sort your results by date so you get the most recent news at the top. Look for the sorting menu at the top left corner of your results screen. 

Dave Zirin, The Nation 

Zirin is a sports journalist reporting for The Nation, and his writings follow a political bend germane to the publication. SFPL subscribes to the print magazine and the digital version on Flipster, but you'll find most of Zirin's pieces on the Nation's website.

He often has interesting things to say about baseball in addition to the other sports he covers. Most recently he dipped his toes into the drama with the A's (formerly known as the Oakland A's) in an April 5, 2024 piece calling the GAP heir and A's owner John Fisher a "petty authoritarian" and shining a light on his retaliation against outspoken team members Ruiz and Rooker. 

Speaking of the A's holdover in Sacramento before making their final move to Las Vegas in 2028, Zirin says, "To see Fisher humiliate this franchise and the city of Oakland on his way out the door demands a rebuke" and goes on to pointedly say, "This isn’t about baseball. It’s about capital flight from our cities. It’s about the subjugation of our history. It’s about the 1 percent picking the meat off the bones of our cities."

Do you agree, and if so, what would your rebuke be?

Other Newspapers 

If you're like our bud Marianne Moore, you're probably itching for that Yankees content!

Marianne Moore throws the first pitch at Yankees stadium 1968. Library of America: Poetry in Motion by Larry Merchant

San Francisco Public Library provides access to newspapers from other geographic areas as well, namely the New York Times in many formats. Explore more newspapers under eNews on our webpage. 

Magazines and Newspapers - Access eNews Collections

What's your favorite team and how do you keep up with their record? Leave a comment to let us know.


Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Film: The Dissident

 

Film: The Dissident 

Friday, 4/12/2024
1:30 - 3:30

Koret Auditorium

Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was critical of his beloved Saudi Arabia and of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s policies. On October 2, 2018, Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and never came out. His fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together clues to his brutal murder—and in their dogged quest for truth, they expose a global cover-up perpetrated by the very country he loved. 

With exclusive access to the Turkish government’s evidence to Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz; and to Khashoggi’s close friend and fellow Saudi insurgent, Omar Abdulaziz, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel unearths hidden secrets in this real-life international thriller that will continue to rock the world long after the headlines have faded away. 

Chillingly powerful and heartbreakingly candid, The Dissident is an intimate portrait of a man who sacrificed everything for freedom of speech. With this cogent film, Fogel joins a cadre of dreamers across the globe who refuse to squelch the life’s work of an intrepid rebel, who, even after death, is defying those who sought to silence him forever.”  – thedissident.com

View trailer

PG-13, 117 mins., 2020. Closed captions (CC) in English.  

Read excerpts of Khashoggi’s Washington Post opinion column: Public Website Link | SFPL Database Link

See event listing on the SFPL master calendar.

View other Magazines and Newspapers Center programs on the SFPL event calendar under the What's News heading

Saturday, March 30, 2024

What We're Reading: March 2024

As usual we've been grazing through periodically produced media this March, delighting in and puzzling over the many ways to access some articles. Enjoy some of the highlights below!
New York Times, March 3, 2024

While we've been following this story ever since the mesmerizing drone footage of the graffiti tags went viral on Instagram a few months ago, we're including this New York Times article as a subtle way to promote the many different methods you can use to access the newspaper through SFPL resources. The newest method is viewing the paper replica in PressReader, which gives you digital access to the paper the exact way it appears in print. You can also use the 72-hour access method to read this story on the NYT website, which features a lot of that mesmerizing drone footage. 

What do you think about the graffiti on the towers--is it capitvatingly cool, or vandalism? 
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We Tried Oscar Mayer’s New Vegan Hot Dogs

Bon Appétit, March 22, 2024

All the vegans in the house: are fake meats WIRED or TIRED? Would you take a chance to chomp the Oscar Mayer vegan dog? What if we told you Jeff Bezos was involved? (p.s. SFPL offers Bon Appétit magazine in print and online, but this article is web-only content.)

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A Chronicle reporter went undercover in high school. Everyone is still weighing the fallout

San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2024

Chronicle writer Peter Hartlaub revisits the time a 26 year old Chronicle reporter went undercover at George Washington High School in the Richmond District, a unique event that happened in 1992 and will probably never happen again. The archival photos from the original report make us nostalgic for High School... makes us almost want to go back, except for the part where the school was making due with the absolute minimum of funding due to prop 13 passing some fifteen years before and the rats that were running through the halls. 

Did you go to Washington High? What memories does the piece espouse in you?

Note, the title links to the unlocked article on the SF Chronicle website. The piece also ran in the March 31 Sunday edition which you can access through SFPL.

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A Beautiful Mind

In an age of conformity, Solange is the rare artist who relishes following her own creative intuition

Harper's Bazaar, March 2024 

Solange graces the cover of this month's Harper's Bazaar, and through the interview we learn she loves history, archives, and libraries, finding inspiration for her varied projects in these vaults of information. She even directed the journalist profiling her to meet at the local public library for their interview. We love this sound byte from Solange in the piece: "'I love the internet,' she says, then adds slyly, 'I be on that bitch too much.'" We feel you, Solange. Us too.

Friday, March 22, 2024

Snapshots from 150 years of Women's Magazines

Following up on the success of all the women's magazines activities last week, we're sharing snapshots of ads, covers, and features from the spread of magazines we had out for browsing. The content represented in these photos was identified as interesting by the activity participants. Seeing all the photos together gives you an idea of the fun we had engaging with apparel how-tos, fashion and cigarette ads, cartoon advice, interior decorating, and personal essays. It gives you an idea of the variety of what can be called "women's magazines." 


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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Tutorial: Consumer Reports

 

 

Tutorial: Consumer Reports

Thursday, March 21, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Virtual Library
 

Learn how to access and search Consumer Reports and the Buying Guide online with your library card. 

Presented by a Magazines & Newspapers Center librarian. 

This tutorial will be recorded. Register on Zoom to receive a link to the recording if you cannot come to the live presentation.  

See event listing on the SFPL master calendar.

View other Magazines and Newspapers Center programs on the SFPL event calendar under the What's News heading
 

UPDATE 3/22/24:

Video Recording 


Access the recording of the tutorial by clicking the screenshot below. 
 

 

PDF Handout

View and download the handout from the tutorial:

 

PDF Slides

View and download the slides from the tutorial:

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Women's Magazines for Women's History Month

Around these parts we call it HERstory--the SFPL term used to describe Women's History Month. This week the Magazines and Newspapers Center hosted two in-person programs inviting patrons to come together to read women's magazines spanning 150 years. 


Pssst... the magazine spread included Playgirl, which was no small fact. Instagram audiences went wild for the big reveal, and the San Francisco Standard, a local news website, sent their culture reporters to paw through the volumes. 

SF Standard article about Women's Magazines and Playgirl at SFPL

 

We hope you can join us on Friday, March 15 for the final installment of the women's magazines and feminism program, but if you can't, see below for the title list, access options, and a short bibliography.

 

There's also a pop-up exhibit of Playgirl magazines by the 5th floor elevators. Check it out before the end of March when it will be de-installed. 



Thursday, February 29, 2024

What We're Reading: February 2024

Here are some articles we've been reading this February. We'll start with the view from the East Coast with articles from Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Washington Post, and travel back to the West Coast with articles from the San Francisco Chronicle and then hop across the pond to the Economist. We'll finish off with a Doja Cat palette cleanser. Articles are linked through SFPL databases whenever possible, so get your library card ready if you're reading from home.


Tech Millionaires Take On Politicians in a Fight to Fix San Francisco

Executives are trying to combat crime, drug abuse and homelessness. ‘Enough is enough, we’re getting involved in the muck.’

Wall Street Journal,  February 9, 2024
 
Written by the WSJ's tech reporter based in San Francisco, Preetika Rana, this article doesn't tell us anything we don't know, but it summarizes the situation from a vantage of a newspaper concerned with money stuff published three-thousand miles away. After all, the Guardian/Mission Local reported on the issue this month as well, and our own San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Standard have been reporting on the tech money and interests pouring into our big election year. The stand-out photographs and graphics from the web version of the WSJ article make it mention-worthy (even though the photos of Civic Center are circa 2020 and do not reflect the current scene). 

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Why Don’t We Hang Out Anymore?

Adults need to relax and do nothing together, just like kids do.

Well newsletter, New York Times, February 9, 2024  

Although SFPL recently began offering the digital replica of the daily New York Times paper in PressReader, this article about building relationships with friends by doing mundane tasks together--or nothing at all--is a subscriber-only newsletter that one SFPL librarian subscribes to, and is shared for your convenience. In the article, the author talks about the ideas found in the book Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time by Sheila Liming (available in many formats through SFPL) and offers some suggestions for ways to kill time with your friends like we use to do as teenagers. The ideas of friendship explored in the article pair well with a Wall Street Journal piece from last month called, "They’re in Your Group Chat. But Are They Really Your Friends?"

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Fani Willis's outrage was precise and laser-focused on the stand

Washington Post, February 15, 2024

This is what WaPo calls a "perspective piece" by their senior critic-at-large, Robin Givhan so if you're looking for straight up facts about Willis taking the stand, keep moving. But if you're looking for one hell of a description of the feeling in that room when Willis took the stand, look no further. The best part is when Givhan subtly defends Willis's use of cash by alluding to all the reasons a woman of color would rely on cash that Willis didn't mention, all of which come back to the structural racism and misogyny that exist in the American banking system.

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How Can City Be Both Beautiful and Ugly?

San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2024

Regular "Native Son" columnist Carl Nolte offers a poetic reflection on the dichotomy we have here in our urban reality as he describes what he sees as he goes about his business one day: those people hauling five foot sacks of recyclables on the 24 bus line; eleven ships floating on a slate-grey bay. Part philosophical musing, part observation, Nolte reminds us that sometimes the most important thing you can do is look around and bear witness. Someone has to remember the broken down gas stations and how the hustle and bustle is returning to Market Street. Otherwise we loose our footing in the flow of time and can't mark change.

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Comeback City 

The Economist, February 17, 2024 

Cited in Nolte's column linked above, this Economist article--published in London, England as Nolte points out-- heralds San Francisco's comeback, spurning the doom loop narrative while also acknowledging what the city has been through in the past five years. Take it from people who work at the Main Library in Civic Center: we need this positivity. 

All these publications from outside California have something to say about our "cool, grey city of love," and everyday we're having our own experiences living here that confirm or refute what the papers are saying, making those of us who observe and bear witness even that much more important.   

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DOJA CAT is Reimagining POP STARDOM...

Harper's Bazaar, September 2023 

For something completely different to top off this post, we're going back to September of last year because one of the librarians recently found her copy of the Icon Issue with Doja Cat on the cover under a pile of magazines under her coffee table. Doja Cat's voice in the interview is like a palate cleanser after mulling over the heady issues of San Francisco's image. She says, "I love love.... I'm learning to love myself, so the way that I love other people is very different. I don't feel like a lost little teen. I feel like a woman who is coming into her own." 


Saturday, February 24, 2024

Watch the Recording of our Studio Visit with Faheem Majeed

If you missed our program last Friday on the sculpture of Black newspapers, Freedom's Stand, now is your chance to watch the recording and get some background on why we brought this program to SFPL. 


New York City's iconic raised park, The High Line, where the sculpture is on exhibit, released an email heralding the recording on Saturday 2/24/24:

Faheem Majeed, Freedom's Stand, 2022. Photo by Lawrence Sumulong.

The inspiration and research behind Faheem Majeed's "Freedom Stand"

One hundred and eighty-seven different newspaper front pages have graced Faheem Majeed’s towering Freedom’s Stand over the course of the past year. From prominent people to notable events, these newspapers have given snapshots of US history through the lenses and words of Black America—spanning the last 200 years and from all across the 50 states.

“The Black voice is not myopic—it’s expansive and also conflicting,” Majeed says of the materials he found during the making of Freedom’s Stand. “That’s what’s so exciting about this [project]… The expanse is really fascinating to think about, [especially] when the Black voice is oftentimes pigeonholed and controlled.”

Watch this recent San Francisco Public Library talk with Majeed where he and his research assistant, Shola Jimoh, delve into the inspiration and the archival research behind his artwork for the High Line.

 

From one coast to another, newspapers ring out as an insight of the Black view on the nation's news. Watch the talk and tell us what you think of the sculpture and the research process in the comments. 

Activity: Women’s Magazines and Feminism, 19th Century to the Present

 

Activity: Women’s Magazines and Feminism, 19th Century to the Present

Learning Studio—5th Floor, Main Library 
Tuesday, March 12, 12:30-1:30 p.m. & 
Friday, March 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Encore) 

This exact activity is offered twice.

Interact with a curated selection of women’s magazines from the library’s collection in this hands-on activity covering more than 150 years of publishing in the United States.  

For your awe and interrogation, fifteen different women’s magazines from the 1850s to 2020s invite your analysis. Learn about milestone moments in the history of publishing women’s magazines from a Magazines and Newspapers Center librarian. Following a librarian-created checklist, trace concepts of gender roles, feminine beauty and fashion, suffrage, women’s liberation and feminism through the spread of magazines both commercial and independent. Identify variations in editorial tone and graphic representation and question the motivation of each publication for embodying its respective attributes. Receive guidance on accessing the print issues of each magazine featured in the workshop through the library’s holdings, as well as how to access and view digitized versions of the magazines through the library’s website.

You are encouraged to bring your smartphone to snap photos of magazine content to share with other participants through the course of the activity.

Magazine titles include: 

  • Ladies’ American Magazine  
  • Godey’s Lady’s Book  
  • Ladies’ Home Journal  
  • Good Housekeeping  
  • Essence 
  • McCall’s 
  • Better Homes & Gardens 
  • Up from Under  
  • Playgirl Magazine
  • Bitch 
  • Ms. Magazine 
  • Harper’s Bazaar  
  • Women's Sports & Fitness 
  • Women’s Wear Daily 
  • Vogue 
  • Oprah Magazine 

Some photos from the librarian preparing for the program are below. Can you guess which decade of of them are from? 






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View other Magazines and Newspapers Center programs on the SFPL event calendar under the What's News heading

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

New Digital Magazine Archives including VIBE, BLK, and Kuumba

San Francisco Public Library recently added three packages of digital magazine archives to its electronic resources, which means you have the backfiles of dozens of magazines available at the tip of your fingers.

The Magazine Archives 

 

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 1-4 (ProQuest)

89 publications covering music, television, and film. Enter into the database and click publications at the top to see all of the magazines available.



Health & Fitness Magazine Archive (ProQuest)

9 publications with coverage starting in 1950: Flex, Men's Fitness (UK), Men's Fitness (US), Men's Health, Prevention, Women's Health, The Women's Health Activist, Women's Health Weekly, and Zest.
 
 

LGBT Magazine Archive 1 & 2 (ProQuest)

44 publications mostly from cities across the US, with some coverage from Europe and Australia.  Anything That Moves and Homocore are two magazines in the archive published in San Francisco. 
 

Black Interest

 
Here are a couple highlights from the new databases to promote More Than A Month, the SFPL celebration of Black history and culture. 

 

"Time was, a rap artist in an expansive mood would call up some of his MC pals and have them flow over a track just to mix things up. Now, from producer-driven projects such as the current releases from Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs and DJ Clue to compilations like the Ruff Ryders' Ryde or Die Vol. 2 and 'big tent' albums like Dr. Dre 2001, guest appearances on hip hop albums are as much about corporate synergy as they are about giving shout-outs." - "Partners in Rhyme," Dec 1, 2000 issue of VIBE magazine

Reading VIBE from almost any point in the twelve year archive (1992-2014) is like reading something from a contemporary magazine, so often do the same themes of black celebrity, technology, and issues of inequality come up in the writing and photographs featured in the magazine. Even the graphic design of the magazine seems apt for the 2020s.
 
"... if I wanted to make money, I wouldn't be doing this at all and if I wanted to make money I would not choose documentary. I would tell anybody who's interested in documentaries, that is not the pursuit that you should follow in order to make lots of money," -- filmmaker Marlon Riggs in the April 1, 1990 issue of BLK magazine. (See Riggs documentaries available through SFPL.)
 
BLK was a black, queer interest magazine published in Los Angeles and is available full text in the magazine archive from Dec 1, 1988 (no. 1) - Mar 1, 1994 (Vol. 5, no. 3).
 

"Poetry is an essential nutrient to some; a new and as yet unexplored pleasure for others... Read these words aloud; share them with your brothers and sisters around you, and take them with you on the next stage of your journey." - The Editor, Mark Allen Haile, in the Jul 1, 1997 issue of Kuumba.
 
Kuumba was a poetry journal for black lesbians and gay men. It was an offshoot of BLK magazine, listed above, published in Los Angeles. There are a couple issues of this lit mag in the LGBT Magazine Archive from 1991 and 1997.