Oakland, California

A group of outdoor educators in Oakland, California is trying to break the grip of strictly urban life on teenagers by getting them out on horseback in the Oakland Hills. Jacinda Abcarian of Youth Radio in Oakland reports.

During its seventy year tenure, a hot dog stand in Oakland has become an anchor for residents of the city’s Temescal neighborhood in good times and bad. Producer Peter Thomson prepared our sound portrait of The Original Kaspers.

We talk with Jack Leonard, a reporter with the Los Angeles Times who was in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. We also talk with freelancer reporter Bob Butler, who has been following the controversy from Oakland.

Last night, jurors in Los Angeles found Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter. We’re joined by Adimu Madyun, a resident of West Oakland, and a community correspondent for Oakland Voices, a project of the Oakland Tribune newspaper.