This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Commentary written by Tama L. Brisbane is Stockton’s Poet Laureate Emerita and a literary and performing arts ...

I watched a new era in Stockton’s hip-hop scene come of age. Moving to the Central Valley city in the early 2000s, I found a hip-hop community that was its own form of resistance. Smoldering ...