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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

 

Hosted By Vicki Gonzalez

Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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‘Making Meadowview’ And A History of the South Sacramento Neighborhood

  •  Kate Gonzales 
Thursday, October 10, 2019 | Sacramento, CA
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Polynesian dancers at the 2019 California State Fair.

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People from Sacramento and beyond began taking a closer look at Meadowview in 2018. The South Sacramento neighborhood was thrust into the news after the police shooting of Stephon Clark in March of that year. The 22-year-old's death ignited local protests of police violence against unarmed black citizens. The incident also sparked conversations about the neighborhood’s enduring problems, like poverty and lack of public investment.

Those who don’t really know Meadowview could have easily missed the neighborhood’s bright spots. Harmful stereotypes about crime persist. But the people who have lived there and are working to enrich the community know that the suburb’s blight is not its defining characteristic. CapRadio’s newest podcast introduces listeners to Meadowview residents who have long been making an impact.

‘Making Meadowview’ is the latest podcast from CapRadio’s documentary series, ‘The View From Here.’ Reporter and host Pauline Bartolone spent a year exploring the work and people that sometimes go unrecognized beyond the neighborhood's borders. Those include stories about curbing crime in the Tongan community, a community police officer who was a champion for little league, and a woman who responded to the crack epidemic by empowering young women. The six-episode series premieres today, with a new episode released each Thursday.

Pauline Bartolone will join Insight to discuss her reporting in Meadowview. Sac State geography professor Robin Datel will also join the conversation, along with Robert Roots Sr. Roots was raised in Meadowview and will reflect on how the neighborhood has changed in his lifetime.

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    The Newcomers

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    A large community of Pacific Islanders lives in Meadowview, attending Christian churches and public schools. When members of the Tongan community were becoming active in gangs, elders brought them back to their roots, teaching them Polynesian dance.
  • Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio

    The Meadowview You Never Knew

    Thursday, October 10, 2019
    After the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark, Sacramento’s attention focused on his neighborhood of Meadowview. But residents say their community is misunderstood — that it’s not a hotbed for crime, but a haven of cultural diversity and hope.
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    'If We Are Fed And Cared For, We Blossom': Sacramento Renames Park For LeVar Burton

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    On Tuesday the city of Sacramento renamed Richfield Park after Burton, the famous actor and reading advocate who once lived in the Meadowview neighborhood.
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    Making Meadowview

    Sacramento's Meadowview neighborhood came to prominence as the place where police shot and killed Stephon Clark. CapRadio spent a year listening and learning about this diverse and surprising place that exemplifies neighborhoods across the country.

Kate Gonzales

Former Insight Producer

Kate Gonzales was a producer of Insight with Beth Ruyak.  Read Full Bio 

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