Today’s San Francisco Chronicle - print edition
Real quick - if you have time, you should pick up a copy of today’s SF Chronicle.
As part of their coverage of the Oakland homicides, there is a story on a woman named Lorrain Taylor. She lost both of her sons to violence and now speaks out against it and helps support those who are going through the same thing.
The photos by Lacy Atkins are great and the space given inside to the story is very, very nice. The double truck layout with lots of photos in black in white is powerful. I’m just glad that a story like this is being told - what’s happening in Oakland is beyond words and we need to shake up the collective consciousness to try and make things better.
I kind of wish they packaged this story with the others—they published a story on a mortician and a teenager on separate days a few weeks back—all as part of a three day series. They’ve done it with every other major series in the past so why not now? Maybe get some more impact that way.
They also have a bunch of stuff online at http://www.sfgate.com/oaklandhomicides/ including a list of the victims with photos and audio for many of them.
Jorgen