Equipto: Hip Hop and Collectivity

April 28, 2021 The Guardsman 0

An exclusive interview with legendary San Francisco MC and Bored Stiff member, Equipto. He speaks on his crew, Bored Stiff’s beginnings, balancing music and community work, and what it’s like to be an independent artist in 2021.

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Indigenous Peoples of the Bay Area: A History of Survival

February 9, 2021 The Guardsman 0

Given the massive diversity in languages, family groups, customs, and cultures, the native people of the northern and central California coasts likely would not have seen themselves as belonging to any single common group prior to the arrival of the Spanish. To some degree, this persists today, with many local Indigenous people self-identifying primarily as members of one or more of approximately 58 distinct regional cultures that are grouped under the umbrella-term “Ohlone.”