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Street Soldiers Radio: Pressure-From FBI Fugitive to Freedom.

Dr. Marshall interviews author, Malik Wade, author of Pressure- From FBI Fugitive to Freedom and Executive Director of SIG (Scholastic Interest Group). http://traffic.libsyn.com/aliveandfree/aliveandfree_streetsoldiersradio_malik_wade_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Dr. Marshall and Alive & Free have been awarded the 2017 California Prize for Service and the Common Good! The California Prize is USF’s way of rewarding, honoring, and celebrating the work of those who share our commitment to create a more just, sustainable, and humane world. Past honorees include Salesforce.org, Daniel Lurie, and the…

The Crisis of Police Violence

At Alive & Free, we don’t just hope our young people stay safe, we work unflaggingly to make it so — teaching them to make safe choices and follow the path away from violence. Typically, this has been a discussion about community violence. At this moment, however, our community must also reckon with another…

Police and community relations–how do we make it better? We dive into this topic on Street Soldiers Radio Sunday night during a LIVE town hall discussion including the following panelists: Allwyn Brown, Chief of Police Richmond Capt. Ersie Joyner, Oakland PD Jennifer Tejada, Chief of Police Emeryville Toney Chaplin, Interim Chief of Police San Francisco Over…

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there. I just want to say thank you for being a father to your child. You’re doing the most important job of all. There’s nothing better than a good dad. This is Father’s Day and it’s our time to say, “Thanks!” Having grown up with my dad,…

Domestic Violence Is Worse Than You Think–And It Has to Stop!

Featured on the Huffington Post: The following conservation took place on the April 10 broadcast of Street Soldiers, a live call-in radio show hosted every Sunday night in the San Francisco Bay Area on KMEL 106.1. Co-hosts Dr. Marshall and Lady Estell discussed domestic violence with Executive Director of the Alameda County Family Justice Center Cherri…

Featured on the Huffington Post I love Black History Month. I just believe we can do it better. At the beginning of February last year I had a long talk with the young people at my youth program Alive & Free to find out what they knew about Black History. Not surprisingly, it wasn’t very much.…

The Joe Marshall Plan (USF Magazine)

Joe Marshall founded the Omega Boys Club with the belief that many inner-city youth want to escape lives of drugs, gangs, and violence, but don’t know how. His no-nonsense, no-judgment program saves their lives. Then it sends them to college. Joe Marshall ’68 is live on the air at San Francisco’s KMEL radio station, asking questions,…

A’s in Math, F’s in Life

Marshall went to work teaching math in the city’s high schools and middle schools, always expecting the most from his students. “The only way to pass my class was to pass my tests, ” he says. “I’d give them homework and call their homes. I figured if they could survive me, they’d be fine.” The…