Healing the Body, Mind, and Cultural Divide: It’s More than a Walk in the Park
One Saturday morning late last spring, I pulled into Garin Regional Park in the hills above Hayward. I didn’t have the $5 for parking, but intuiting why I was there,...
Author Archives: Pendarvis Harshaw
Pendarvis Harshaw is a journalist and educator from Oakland. Since earning degrees from Howard University and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, he has produced articles, videos, and audio pieces for outlets such as NPR and The California Sunday Magazine. Articles highlighting his self-published coming-of-age memoir OG Told Me have appeared in the L.A. Times and The FADER Magazine and landed him on the cover of the East Bay Express. @ogpenn
Do Parks Push People Out?
Parks improve health and fight climate change. But not all parks affect a community in the same way -- and the question is: "Who's it for?"
