A writer traces the motivations that led her to run a half-marathon on the California coast.
Cassie da Costa
Posted inMay 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
From river bottom to meadow
A runner in Ojai, California, considers how access to public space isn’t necessarily a given.
Posted inNovember 1, 2020: When the Smoke Clears
California’s history of anti-Blackness hides beneath its progressive reputation
A new history of the state traces early civil rights battles spearheaded by Black activists.